Jakub Kalenský is a senior analyst at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) in Helsinki, Finland, focusing on Russian disinformation. He was previously a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's DFRLab and a member of the EU's East StratCom Task Force, where he founded the EUvsDisinfo campaign. This text represents his opinions only and does not reflect the position of his employer.
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There have been many optimistic takes claiming that Russia is losing or has already lost the information war against the West. This optimism is both misguided and dangerous.
“President Putin has comprehensively lost the information war in Ukraine and in the West,” said Sir Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, the U.K.’s intelligence, security, an