How Moscow Targets Europe Before Propaganda Begins

We already see that Russians are trying to find ways to talk to our Western allies, to get back to the international platforms, to bring in more investments because their economy is suffering.

So at that particular moment, we need to remember very well what Russia is.

Kremlin and Putin himself, personally, he is currently trapped into a situation where for him it's harder to stop the war than to continue because as soon as he finishes this stage of aggression, there will be so many questions on Why have we started it in the first place if we haven't overtaken not only Kyiv, but even the whole Donetsk Oblast? We are standing, we are the only fortress that stands between your life and death.

between your life in the society and in the state that allows you to go out there and think about yourself and reimagine yourself, and society which will come and tell you who you are and who will kill or torture you if you say, no, I think that I'm someone else.

Welcome to another episode of Ukraine Insights.

Today, where we'll be talking about the policy brief by author Jelena Davlikanova, senior research fellow at Sahadychnyy Security Center.

The report or the brief is called Going Mental, Russia's cognitive war against Europe.

We're going to dissect it.

And to start us off, you make an argument there that West and Europe has to be more proactive in its measures against Russian information warfare.

What does that mean in practice?

We already see that Russians are trying to find ways to talk to our Western allies, to get back to the international platforms, to bring in more investments because their economy is suffering.

So at that particular moment, we need to remember very well what Russia is.

Kremlin and Putin himself, personally, he is currently trapped into a situation where for him it's harder to stop the war than to continue because as soon as he finishes this stage of aggression, there will be so many questions on Why have we started it in the first place if we haven't overtaken not only Kyiv, but even the whole Donetsk Oblast? We are standing, we are the only fortress that stands between your life and death.

between your life in the society and in the state that allows you to go out there and think about yourself and reimagine yourself, and society which will come and tell you who you are and who will kill or torture you if you say, no, I think that I'm someone else.

Welcome to another episode of Ukraine Insights.

Today, where we'll be talking about the policy brief by author Jelena Davlikanova, senior research fellow at Sahadychnyy Security Center.

The report or the brief is called Going Mental, Russia's cognitive war against Europe.

We're going to dissect it.

And to start us off, you make an argument there that West and Europe has to be more proactive in its measures against Russian information warfare.

What does that mean in practice?