Find the new article by Christine DUGOIN-CLÉMENT, Affiliate Professor at Sorbonne Business School.
After several months of fighting, the private military company Wagner announced on January 10 that it had taken the town of Soledar, in the Donbass (eastern Ukraine), an announcement gradually picked up by official Russian channels thereafter. Kiev admitted losing the town two weeks later. Throughout these extremely violent clashes, the two warring parties engaged in a struggle that was almost as intense on the information front as in the theater of operations.
Analysis of this double dimension of a battle whose impact will perhaps have been as important in terms of communication as in military terms [...]