User:Jweat24/Russian information war against Ukraine

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The crisis in eastern Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 have contributed to the heightened tensions that have been present in the information war between the two countries for a number of years. Propaganda, [1]misinformation, and media narrative manipulation are used in the information war to sway public opinion and affect how events are perceived. Tensions and the ongoing confrontation between Russia and Ukraine are largely due to cyber operations. Both nations have been linked to a number of Cyberwarfare, such as attacks on vital infrastructure, disinformation operations, and hacking. It is noteworthy that assigning specific cyber operations to a given nation can be difficult, and these endeavors frequently entail some degree of uncertainty. Russia and Ukraine have both been charged of utilizing media manipulation as a component of their information warfare tactics. Propaganda is spread, news narratives are shaped, and public opinion is swayed by a variety of tactics in media manipulation.

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Further information: Russian disinformation in the post-Soviet era

An example of Misinformation that was displayed to the public that caused media narratives to be manipulated is how American news sources publicized the evasion of Ukraine. However, the same said news sources failed to inform us that this war was ongoing since 2014. The first publicized cyberattack was on September 5th 2014[2] and a Denial-of-service attack attack was pointed at online traffic systems, which were occupied by Russia and attacked by Ukraine territories. There was another cyber attack on Ukraine electricity grid in December 2015 cased by a major outage that affected hundreds and thousands of people. The attack, which made use of the BlackEnergy software, demonstrated how cyber operation may affect vital Infrastructure.