US, NATO military plans leak: Actual war strategy or Russian fake news?
Ukraine and its allies, however, aren't the only ones calling the shared blueprints bogus or misleading."disinformation by Western intelligence in order to mislead our command in identifying the enemy's strategy in the coming counteroffensive."
The reaction to the supposed leaked papers from both sides of the war on Ukraine indicate a growing awareness of the role of online information operations during wartime. It's also worth noting the military plans surfaced about a week after another series of high-profile leaked documents made headlines, allegedly showing how
, a Moscow IT consultancy, supports Russia's military and intelligence agencies with cyber warfare tools including automated propaganda efforts.one of the tools as"a framework used to control the online information environment and manipulate public opinion, enhance psychological operations, and store and organize data for upstream communication of efforts."Indeed, Russia has been waging a disinformation battle since its ground invasion of Ukraine began.
"This is a very dangerous activity, fighting for the minds of people, and this is the game in which Russia won on their territory," Viktor Zhora, who leads Ukraine's cybersecurity agency,
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