Ukraine’s national security sector: challenges and threats in the information space

  • Author: Yehor Tymoshov
  • Institution: Zaporizhzhia National University
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8837-3108
  • Year of publication: 2022
  • Source: Show
  • Pages: 137-149
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/rop2022309
  • PDF: rop/21/rop2109.pdf

The subject of Ukraine’s national security has been continuously receiving a new discourse considering the uncovered aggression of the Russian Federation ongoing since 2014, followed by the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of Eastern regions of the country. As a result of agression, the governmental agencies of Ukraine adopted several strategic documents that directly relate to such a component of national security as information. The Information Security Strategy, adopted by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in December 2021, defines priorities in information security, particularly identifying current challenges and threats to Ukraine’s national security in the information sphere. The Strategy also sets strategic goals and objectives aimed at counteracting such threats. An unprovoked full-scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine on 24 February 2022 proves that the information space becomes a combat field in the reality of war. The Russian federative propaganda machine is fueling the conflict as well as the high levels of support of brutal actions of the state’s president Putin (according to various sources from 51% to 71% of Russians support war in Ukraine). This, as well as the generally increasing role of the information factor in modern spaces of society, incurs the relevance of the research topic. The article aims to systematically determine the features of the conceptual and applied aspects of the information security of Ukraine. The realisation of the purpose identified assumes achievement of the following objectives:
1. Identify the key characteristics of the information space of Ukraine.
2. Determine the characteristics of risks, challenges and threats in the information space.
3. Define the source of the information aggression against Ukraine.
4. Develop recommendations for enhancing the procedure of reacting towards such aggressions.
In the process of solving research problems, such general scientific methods as analysis and synthesis have been applied to identify the factors that have had the most significant impact on the information space of Ukraine. challenges, information threat, information risks.

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