The Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council analyzed more than 94,000 publications from nearly 24,000 sources as part of a study of Russian information operations concerning prisoners of war, prisoner exchanges, and missing persons, identifying four main destructive Russian narratives.
Kyrylo Viktorov, head of the Department for Countering Information Threats to National Security at the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), reported this during a press conference at Ukrinform.
According to him, the study covered the period from January 1 to August 11, 2026. Using specialized software, analysts examined more than 94,000 publications from nearly 24,000 sources. The study covered both Ukrainian- and Russian-language segments of the information space, while the total number of views of the analyzed materials reached 419 million.
The Center's representative emphasized that not all of the publications analyzed contained destructive narratives. Analysts identified messages that Russia uses to carry out information operations, as well as the corresponding narratives and their objectives.
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