Center for Countering Disinformation

Center for Countering Disinformation
Центр протидії дезінформації
Agency overview
FormedMarch 11, 2021
Jurisdiction Ukraine
Headquarters11, Bankova Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01220
Employees52
Agency executives
  • Andriy Kovalenko, Head of the Center
Parent agencyNational Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
WebsiteOfficial website

The Center for Countering Disinformation (Ukrainian: Центр протидії дезінформації, Tsentr protydii dezinformatsii) is a working body of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine established in accordance with a decision of that council dated March 11, 2021 "On the creation of the Center for Countering Disinformation",[1][2] and enacted by Presidential Decree No. 106 of March 19, 2021.[3]

The Center ensures the implementation of measures to counteract current and projected threats to Ukraine's national security and national interests in the information sphere, ensuring Ukraine's information security, identifying and counteracting disinformation, effectively countering propaganda, destructive information influences and campaigns, and preventing attempts to manipulate public opinion.

  1. ^ "Decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine". Official website of the Parliament of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  2. ^ "Telegram Becomes a Digital Battlefield in Russia-Ukraine War". Time.
  3. ^ "Presidential Decree No. 106/2021". Official website of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-04-04.