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.