A Ukrainian take on Russia’s ‘propaganda’ campaign (guest blog)

This article is by LSE Student Elena Serdyuk. It’s a personal account from someone who feels involved in the fate of her nation, but it also highlights how the media campaign is mobilised alongside the military manoeuvres at this stage. Never in my life did I think I would utter the words, “Ukraine is at war!” Last Sunday I did. As a group of my friends and I tried to digest the shocking news, we all agreed that the war had started much earlier—the unfair, all-out, hard-to-win propaganda war on Ukraine, led by the Russian media.