15/05/2026
Svitlana Kovalchuk, YES Executive Director, outlines the main takeaways from the Black Sea and Balkans Security Forum's panel discussion on the weapons of Russian informational warfare.
📍 Cognitive Warfare: Information attacks now happen in real-time alongside military strikes to shape perception before facts catch up.
📍 The Global Reach: From Tunisia to Brazil, Russia is methodically building alternative reality networks.
📍 Proactive Defense: Ukraine shows that resistance is possible, but it requires speed, coordination, and the courage to call "peace at any cost" narratives what they really are: normalization of aggression.
Svitlana emphasizes that it's time for democratic societies to act with the same strategic clarity as our adversaries.