Aggressors may block communication channels, independent media, and access to external sources of information. Creating an information vacuum ensures the neutralization of defenses by depriving the society of the ability to coordinate resistance, and also allows the aggressor to conceal the scale of the war crimes being committed.
Deliberate concealment by the union leadership in Moscow of the scale of the Chornobyl NPP disaster from its own population and international organizations, depriving Ukrainians of information about the level of the radiation threat[1].