ANALYSIS OF MEDIA MANIPULATION STRATEGIES DURING MILITARY CONFLICTS

Abstract

The article analyzes the strategies and methods of manipulation that exist in the Russian and Ukrainian media space in the conditions of information warfare. The information material was collected by analyzing news materials from state and independent news portals. The study shows that there are different ways and processes that can distort existing information and interpret it for personal and political purposes of both states. The paper attempts to fill the gaps by providing and studying four main strategies used in the information war between Russia and Ukraine: sequential and fragmented ways of disseminating information, disinformation and psychological warfare, discredit strategy and mythologization strategy.