Dmytro Zolotukhin - How Ukraine Pioneered Open Source Intelligence to fight Hybrid Info Warfare

Information security - How Ukraine has pioneered Open Source  Intelligence to fight Hybrid Information Warfare. Disinformation and all  the dark arts of hybrid information warfare are a major threat to  victory against Russian aggression in Ukraine. Disinformation seeks to  create an image of Ukraine as an enemy and obtain a social mandate  within Russia to implement Putin’s imperialist policies. It also seeks  to destabilize society and force Ukraine to sue for peace on Moscow’s  terms. Lastly, propaganda operations seek to legitimize Russian policy  for an international audience, and gain influence where it can. Today, I  am speaking to Dmytro Zolotukhin, an expert who wrote the rule book on  how to counter Russian disinformation and aggressive propaganda  narratives.   

Dmytro Zolotukhin is a media expert, political analyst, and Lecturer at  the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He co-authored the  Doctrine of Information Security of Ukraine, which was adopted in  February 2017. He is author and leader of the training course OSINT  Academy and founder of the Institute of Post-Information Society. Dmytro  Zolotukhin is also author and editor of the "White Book of Special  Information Operations against Ukraine 2014-2018" and was Deputy  Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine from 2017 to 2019. He  researches the evolution of information wars and the tools of narrative  regulation; he is also working on the creation of a Ukrainian strategic  narrative, which is enshrined in the doctrine of information security  within Ukraine. Areas in which he has expertise include:  - Competitive Intelligence, Political Analysis, Risk Management, Media  Monitoring and “black PR” counter measures, Reflexive Control and  Narrative Regulation research.