Aggressors may carry out targeted manipulation of the information space and conduct malign influence operations (IO — Influence Operations, FIMI — Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, FMI — Foreign Malign Influence). This technique is used for the coordinated injection of false narratives on the international stage, undermining trust in democratic institutions, and destabilizing the society of the victim state. Information interference is intended to distort the perception of reality, conceal the facts of aggression, and paralyze society's capacity for coordinated resistance. These techniques are covered in more detail in a specialized framework: DISARM Framework.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0100 | Beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Invasion and Occupation of Crimea (2014) |
Official denial by the leadership of the Russian Federation of the participation of Russian regular troops in the seizure of the peninsula, in order to conceal the fact of aggression under the guise of actions by "local self-defense"[1]. |
| C0101 | Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) |
A massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians (the myth of the "crucified boy" in Sloviansk, the invented death of a 10-year-old girl in Donetsk), as well as systematic editing of Wikipedia by Russian trolls to distort the facts about the war[2]. A targeted information operation to conceal the Russian Federation's responsibility for the destruction of passenger flight MH17 by simultaneously injecting numerous contradictory and absurd versions (the "Spanish air traffic controller Carlos," an attack by a Ukrainian ground-attack aircraft) to disorient the international community[2]. |
| C0098 | Diplomatic Attack Against NATO Enlargement (2008) |
Deliberate injection of false historical narratives on the international stage: V. Putin's statement to G. W. Bush that Ukraine is "not even a state" and that its territories were allegedly given away as gifts[1]. |
| C0103 | Full-Scale Invasion (from February 24, 2022) |
Total information control and a legislative ban inside the Russian Federation on calling the invasion a "war" (use of the euphemism "special military operation") in order to conceal crimes and create an alternative reality[3]. Information cover for energy terror: false claims by the authorities of the Russian Federation that the strikes on the power grid were a "response" to the attack on the Crimean Bridge, despite evidence that the missile strikes had been prepared in advance[4]. |
| S0021 | Propaganda |
Deliberate injection of false historical narratives on the international stage: V. Putin's statement to G. W. Bush that Ukraine is "not even a state" and that its territories were allegedly given away as gifts[1]. |
| S0021 | Propaganda |
Official denial by the leadership of the Russian Federation of the participation of Russian regular troops in the seizure of the peninsula, in order to conceal the fact of aggression under the guise of actions by "local self-defense"[1]. |
| S0021 | Propaganda |
A massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians (the myth of the "crucified boy" in Sloviansk, the invented death of a 10-year-old girl in Donetsk), as well as systematic editing of Wikipedia by Russian trolls to distort the facts about the war[2]. A targeted information operation to conceal the Russian Federation's responsibility for the destruction of passenger flight MH17 by simultaneously injecting numerous contradictory and absurd versions (the "Spanish air traffic controller Carlos," an attack by a Ukrainian ground-attack aircraft) to disorient the international community[2]. |
| S0021 | Propaganda |
Total information control and a legislative ban inside the Russian Federation on calling the invasion a "war" (use of the euphemism "special military operation") in order to conceal crimes and create an alternative reality[3]. Information cover for energy terror: false claims by the authorities of the Russian Federation that the strikes on the power grid were a "response" to the attack on the Crimean Bridge, despite evidence that the missile strikes had been prepared in advance[4]. |
| G0011 | Russian Federation |
Deliberate injection of false historical narratives on the international stage: V. Putin's statement to G. W. Bush that Ukraine is "not even a state" and that its territories were allegedly given away as gifts[1]. |
| G0011 | Russian Federation |
Official denial by the leadership of the Russian Federation of the participation of Russian regular troops in the seizure of the peninsula, in order to conceal the fact of aggression under the guise of actions by "local self-defense"[1]. |
| G0011 | Russian Federation |
A massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians (the myth of the "crucified boy" in Sloviansk, the invented death of a 10-year-old girl in Donetsk), as well as systematic editing of Wikipedia by Russian trolls to distort the facts about the war[2]. A targeted information operation to conceal the Russian Federation's responsibility for the destruction of passenger flight MH17 by simultaneously injecting numerous contradictory and absurd versions (the "Spanish air traffic controller Carlos," an attack by a Ukrainian ground-attack aircraft) to disorient the international community[2]. |
| G0011 | Russian Federation |
Total information control and a legislative ban inside the Russian Federation on calling the invasion a "war" (use of the euphemism "special military operation") in order to conceal crimes and create an alternative reality[3]. Information cover for energy terror: false claims by the authorities of the Russian Federation that the strikes on the power grid were a "response" to the attack on the Crimean Bridge, despite evidence that the missile strikes had been prepared in advance[4]. |