Volume 2 Issue 1, 2016 - Journal on Balti c Security

More specifically, the hashtags correspond to the names of cities, states, and countries of the world, completely unrelated to the content of the tweet as well as the webpage pointed to by the short link. [...] On the left are the expanded clusters and on the right is the collapsed view of the clusters. [...] Russia uses information as a tool to destabilise the situation not only on the front in the Donbass region, but in Ukraine as a whole.2 The main goal of Russian information campaigns in Ukraine appears to be spreading panic among Ukrainians and mistrust between the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian army, mistrust between the government and people, and to demoralise the Ukrainian soldiers and their. [...] The aim of the given article is to contribute to filling the gap regarding the representation of the Ukrainian state and military structures in the Russian media. [...] “According to the minister [Lavrov], the conflict in Ukraine is a direct consequence of the short- sighted and prevocational politics of the alliance of Western countries led by the US” (Zvezda 2014c) 38 Journal on Baltic Security Vol 2, Issue 1, 2016 The results are divided into four phases according to different stages in the military events on the ground: I – Provoking the military conflict – A.