Can Ukraine use airstrikes to slow Kremlin propaganda online?

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Ukraine is searching for every lever in its war against Russia to weaken Kremlin propaganda. One idea: strikes on Russian data centers through which disinformation is spread. Whether this can work is examined in a piece by Spiegel.

Russia's vulnerable internet

The piece comes to a mixed conclusion. According to it, Russia's internet is indeed vulnerable. Physical attacks on data centers can at least temporarily disrupt the infrastructure through which propaganda is disseminated. If a node goes down, this noticeably slows the spread of content.

The blind spot of the attacks

At the same time, the analysis sets a clear boundary: bot armies spreading Kremlin propaganda can hardly be defeated from the air. What Ukraine concretely achieves with attacks on data centers — and where the strategy reaches its limits — the Spiegel details in its piece.

What remains of the idea

For Kyiv, this yields a double-edged picture: military strikes on data centers can slow the spread of Kremlin propaganda, while hardly stopping the networks behind it. The fight against the Kremlin's information machinery thus remains a task that goes beyond drones and missiles — and can only be waged with intelligence, fact-checks, and counter-narratives.