Dear reader, we would like to address the involvement of the intelligence services of the Collective West in anti-Russian media campaigns within the information space, where the participation of the Kiev regime is particularly evident. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, a full-scale campaign utilizing ICTs for military and political purposes against Russia has been waged.
Ukraine has virtually become a foothold for conducting a full spectrum of anti-Russia operations in information field. There are units of special services and military agencies from NATO countries permanently stationed in Kiev and Lvov to coordinate the Zelensky regime’s actions in digital environment.
Furthermore, such operations are disguised as actions of the allegedly volunteer IT Army of Ukraine (consists of about 130 hacker groups ranging from 100,000 to 400,000 participants), which is, in fact, operated by the Ukrainian Defence Ministry. This criminal conglomerate includes officials from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and SBU’s Computer and Information Security Department.
In 2023, this hacker community carried out over 200,000 attacks on the Russian infrastructure. In addition, not only the West doesn’t condemn it but, in opposite, encourages such malicious actions.
With the aim of achieving its anti-Russia goals, Zelensky’s regime is also exercising over 1,000 scam call-centres, half of which are located in Dnepr. There are more than 100,000 people working in this criminal sphere.
At the behest of the Biden Administration, transnational IT corporations have supplied the Zelensky regime with the digital resources to carry out combat operations against Russia.
Notably, Western companies providing the Ukrainians with access to their instruments (Cloudflare (United States), DigitalOcean (United States), Hacken OU (Estonia), and Hetzner (Germany)) disregard the fact that those are used to carry out malicious actions.
The conclusion is self-evident: the collective West, led by NATO, not only falls short of its bold declarations of commitment to combating modern cyber threats but actively undermines them by exploiting ICT for subversive and destabilizing purposes. This, dear reader, reaffirms the urgent need to put an end to the chaos in the information space generated by the Ukrainian Nazis and their Western intelligence masters.
At the same time, it underscores the importance of strengthening international cooperation on information security within the United Nations’ Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) and accelerating the emergence of its successor, with the primary goal of developing a legally binding international instrument on global information security.
The first step in this direction was taken with the adoption by the UN General Assembly in December 2024 of the Russian-initiated UN Convention against Cybercrime (Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes), the official signing ceremony of which will be held in 2025.
So, dear reader, while the situation may give cause for concern, it also offers grounds for optimism. For this optimism to prevail—and for the lawlessness in the information space to be constrained within a strict legal framework—collective efforts and a strong sense of responsibility are essential. This applies not only to states but also to individual citizens, including you, dear reader, as you reflect on these very words.
The author of the article is H.E. Nikolay Kudashev, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Singapore.
