We're all familiar with Moscow's disinformation operations on traditional social networks. Lately, these operations are being deployed via various other media, such as BlueSky, the platform where more and more users who have decided to leave X, out of rejection of Elon Musk, can be found, or in films and video games.

Vladimir Putin announcing the return of Crimea to Ukraine and his own resignation, or Volodymyr Zelensky declaring his country's complete surrender: these totally fabricated videos, and others like them, have been viewed some millions of times on social networks. While Russia, in this area as in the military field, launched hostilities as early as 2014, Ukraine has now learned to employ these methods - and other tools of information warfare -, the aim of which is always to sow confusion among public opinion in the enemy country.

On August 24, Pavel Durov was arrested while his private jet was making a stop at Le Bourget. The French authorities explain this decision by the Telegram CEO's refusal to cooperate, particularly in investigations into criminal actions (drug trafficking, swindling or even pedocriminality) whose perpetrators had allegedly used his messaging service to perpetrate them.

In its 2022 Revue nationale stratégique (RNS), France raised influence to the rank of strategic priority. The previous RNS, published in 2017, had already been revised in 2021 to specify France's strategic priorities for 2030; but the tensions observed in 2022 prompted its early revision.

Ukraine has just renewed martial law for 90 days, constitutionally postponing the autumn parliamentary elections and, potentially, the 2024 presidential election. At the same time, Russia is also due to hold a presidential election in the spring of 2024.

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.