INFORMATIONAL INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHILDREN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HYBRID WAR OF RUSSIA AGAINST UKRAINE Cover Image

INFORMATIONAL INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHILDREN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HYBRID WAR OF RUSSIA AGAINST UKRAINE
INFORMATIONAL INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHILDREN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HYBRID WAR OF RUSSIA AGAINST UKRAINE

Author(s): Igor Olexijovyich Polishchuk, Tetiana Mykolaivna Maksimishyna
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Military policy
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: child; information warfare; Ukraine; Russia; public opinion; mass media;

Summary/Abstract: In the context of a hybrid war, modern threats to the information security of children living in the temporarily occupied territories are analyzed, and the prospects for their reintegration into the socio-political field of the Ukrainian state are determined. The article reveals the action of the mechanism of aggressive anti-Ukrainian propaganda, conducted since 2014 on all Russian TV channels and retransmitted to the occupied Ukrainian territories, which, through outright lies and a demonstration of disdain for the leaders of the Ukrainian state, undermines their legitimacy in the eyes of the population of these territories, forms an inadequate attitude in the minds of children to reality, destroys national identity.It is emphasized that the return by Ukraine of control over the temporarily occupied territories is not a short-term prospect, but requires the development of a long-term strategy for the reintegration of these territories. Such a strategy is especially important for children and adolescents, since their political outlook is formed in an information and socio-cultural environment hostile to Ukraine.