Security imperatives of the ukrainian informational space in conditions of the hybrid warfare

Abstract

The essence of the "hybrid war" is clarified, as a full arsenal of various types of combat operations (bombing of civilian infrastructure, terrorism, disorderly, brutal, unprovoked violence), as well as informational and psychological pressure on citizens of one’s own country and on citizens of the country - occupations involving state and non-state actors.
Mechanism of providing informational security of Ukraine is analyzed, it’s efficiency as some system of connected by itself parts from the content of which - from the normative and institutional base of the content - to the inter-sectoral interaction of information security subjects, the implementation of a free state course in the information sphere depends.
It has been shown that russian approach to the informational warfare – it is global strategy which includes cyber attacks and also informational operations against most of the democratic actors in the world, that russian campaign of the informational warfare continue to discredit democratic institutions, promoting extremism and discontent, supporting anti-democratic leaders, trying to shake the influence of the West.
Russian information strategies, using a wide range of disinformation tools, "troll factories", etc., were found to be aimed at restoring Russian dominance in the post-Soviet/imperial sphere of influence; reducing the influence of Western democratic values, institutions and systems in order to create a polycentric world model; the expansion of Russia’s political, economic and military hegemony throughout the world.