European analysts recorded more than a hundred information campaigns against Ukraine in 2025.
In 2025, a sharp increase in information manipulation using artificial intelligence (AI) was recorded. In total, there were three times more such cases than a year earlier.
The main target of attacks remained Ukraine, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) reports in Telegram.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) recorded 540 cases of information manipulation in 2025. Of these, 147 occurred with the use of artificial intelligence technologies, which significantly exceeds the indicators of the previous year.
The largest number of incidents was directed against Ukraine - 112 cases. France, Moldova, Germany, the USA and other countries also found themselves under information pressure.
Analysts attribute about 30% of the recorded interventions to russia. At the same time, a significant part of the sources remains unidentified, although the report notes that this "gray area" may be associated with russian influence networks.
The document emphasized that the russians are actively using artificial intelligence tools. This allows them to create content faster, scale information campaigns and reach a wider audience at lower costs. The CCD expects further growth in such operations in 2026.
"Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, information manipulation has become one of the key tools of the russian federation's hybrid war against Ukraine. According to EU estimates, russia spends billions of euros on such operations and remains the largest source of disinformation campaigns in the world," the CCD concluded.
At the same time, russian special services have launched a large-scale cyber campaign against Signal and WhatsApp users, targeting officials, military personnel, and journalists with high intelligence value. According to the FBI and CISA, hackers are using sophisticated phishing attacks, posing as security services, to force victims to reveal their account access codes on their own.
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