THE WAR OF THE NARRATIVES: THE AGRESSOR’S RHETORIC AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR (BASED ON THE RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCIES’ MATERIALS IN 2014)
Journal: Folia philologica.
Year: 2025

This research is devoted to the Russian media use of the narrative as a type of weapon in their hybrid war against Ukraine. The article aims to analyze linguistic and stylistic rhetoric specifics of the enemy narratives that followed the beginning of modern Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014, based on the materials published by Russian news agencies TASS and RIA-News. Such linguistic analysis makes it possible to understand how language and stylistic means are used by the narrator in order to deliver