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Atlantic Council

How Ukraine fights Russian disinformation: Beehive vs mammoth

LetsData co-founder Ksenia Iliuk joined an Atlantic Council DFRLab panel discussing Beehive vs Mammoth, a Hybrid CoE report on how Ukraine has countered Russian narrative attacks over the past decade. The report is drawn from interviews with two dozen Ukrainian officials and experts leading the country's efforts countering Russian information operations.

Drawing on LetsData's monitoring work, Ksenia walked through how Russian operations reach audiences in unexpected places — from manufactured narratives in Flemish to coordinated hate campaigns on X — and argued that Western governments risk mistaking general awareness of the problem for actually understanding how it works on the ground.