Concluding Remarks
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

The goal of this book has been to understand the role of propaganda in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Since the outbreak of the war in 2014, Russia and its proxies in Donbas believed strongly in their ability to sow doubt, discord, and discontent. However, despite Putin#x2019;s insistence on the supposed historical and ideological underpinnings of the Russian-Ukrainian war, this book shows that neither ideology nor ingroup identity played a meaningful role in media discourse, and instead focused hea