General Staff announces "One news story — one strike" video to be revised

The video depicting media professionals as disclosing information that helps the enemy aim shelling strikes and featuring the motto "One news story — one strike", which was produced by the Ukrainian Armed Forces together with the Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security at the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, will be revised, the UAF General Staff reported in a Facebook post.

The General Staff said that the video was purely educational and aimed to draw the attention of all citizens, including service members, to the issue of information security in wartime. It is a continuation of a series produced as part of the 'Information Security' project.

“We urge you not to regard this material as a reproach or accusation against media representatives. Its purpose is not to criticize, but to remind everyone: any information can have consequences that the enemy will exploit,” the General Staff noted, adding, “In view of the above and taking into account constructive comments and recommendations, the video will be revised in order to further convey the warnings to both civilians and military personnel.”

Previously

Earlier, several state institutions released an animated video produced by the Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security, which implies that journalists are to blame for Russian shelling strikes.

The video features the motto “One news story – one strike.” In shows a reporter in front of a drone manufacturing facility, openly talking about it on camera and saying, “Hundreds of drones are produced here monthly.” An employee of the factory also says on camera that the company has doubled its capacity and that the new batch will soon be shipped off to the frontline. The video cuts to Russian intelligence officers who watched the news story and sent the coordinates of the facility to their general staff in preparation for the next strike.

Then, a missile hits the building and a fire truck drives by. Another reporter in the frame, standing next to the destroyed building, says that there was a “ballistic strike, hospitals are overloaded.” The journalist is shown without a bulletproof vest or a helmet and is reporting supposedly live from the site.

Ihor Solovey, the head of the Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security, said in a comment to IMI representative Valentyna Troyan that the Center had produced this video jointly with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. When asked whether the authors of the video or people who commissioned it think that the video misrepresents the work of the media in covering the activities of the defense sector and reporting from shelling sites, Ihor Solovey emphasized that they do not.

He says the video is exclusively educational and aims to draw the attention of all citizens, including service members, to the issue of information security in wartime.