The new project aims to combat the biased coverage of the war by the Russian press. 35,000 individuals have reportedly signed up to join Ukraine’s ‘information army’ - the new project drafted by the country’s Ministry of Information Policy which seeks to combat the “Russian occupation on the information front”.“I would not want to say how many have signed up by now, that would not be right of me to do. What I can say is that on the first day around 35,000 people registered,” Ukraine’s minister of information policy Yury Stenets told Russian independent TV channel Dozhd.“We are not going to create fake news, we are not going to talk nonsense and we will not speak untrue things,” he said. “As soon as one starts doing that, it becomes ineffective.”
Becoming a volunteer is very simple - according to the Information Army’s website “any Ukrainian with an internet connection” can sign up.
The official motto of the new Ukrainian initiative is: “Every post you make is a bullet to the mind of the enemy”. |