Recent massing of Russian troops close to the border with Ukraine and escalation of the hostilities in Donbas have again attracted the attention of the international community, focusing once more on the de facto unresolved conflict being waged between Russia and Ukraine. In parallel with a reignition of the conflict, so both information warfare operations and propaganda efforts have again begun to blossom. Since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the notion of disinformation - or its rather pejorative 'fake news' definition - has entered our daily vocabulary to describe false information, ranging from the 'crucified boy' in the Donbas to interference in the 2016 US presidential election and even the referendum in Catalonia the following year.
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