‘Betrayal spreads like wildfire’: Inside the disinformation battle for Ukraine on TikTok

Oleksandr Danylyuk, is a former Ukrainian politician and military serviceman who now works for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence and security think tank based in the UK. He told us: "To some extent, what Russia is doing right now against conscription and mobilisation is opportunistic because of some strategic mistakes of the Ukrainian government and its armed forces. You can obviously reduce the popularity of being recruited to the Ukrainian armed forces, and it's very smart."