by Julian Knysh | April 6, 2026,
In wartime Kyiv, books are rarely just books. They can be testimony, warning, field manual, and act of resistance all at once.
That is the atmosphere in which Media Center Ukraine launched “The White Book: Navigating the Russian Propaganda Minefield” on March 18 – not as an abstract study of media manipulation, but as an essential guide forged in the country that has spent decades living under the pressure of Russian lies, and more than ten years under their most violent modern form.
The volume, produced by Media Center Ukraine with support from the EU, sets out to systematize Ukraine’s experience in confronting Russian disinformation and to make that essential knowledge usable for journalists, diplomats, policymakers, researchers and public figures far beyond Ukraine.
The book does not treat propaganda as a side issue to war. It treats it as a core part of the war itself. In the foreword, Media Center Ukraine describes Russian disinformation as “one of the primary tools of hybrid warfare against Ukraine for decades”, capable of shaping public opinion, political processes and national security domestically and abroad.
The purpose of the guide, it says, is to gather lessons that had long been scattered across reports, projects and initiatives and turn them into a clear, structured resource. Ukraine’s long struggle against Russian information aggression is presented not as a niche Ukrainian story, but as essential knowledge that “can now serve as a valuable resource for other states seeking to strengthen their information defenses.”
…
Source: Kyiv Post
The White Book is available at the following link White book – Media Center Ukraine
Leave a Reply