Thank you for your question.
Yes, it's important. As journalists, we've already faced and lived with the circumstances of an information war and a hybrid war for the last eight years. It started from the annexation of Crimea. I am faced with this personally because my family lived in Crimea during this time, and I remember how Russian propaganda lied about everything that was going on in Ukraine and in Crimea.
After these last eight years, journalists in Ukraine have good experience on how to fight this propaganda and how to protect themselves in these violations in the field of information as well.
What is my response? I think one of my favourite examples of how it was during this time is that of two photographers who were in Mariupol. Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov filmed a lot of human rights violations in Mariupol. For example, they filmed and took photos of the hospital in Mariupol that was bombed by Russians. I remember how the Russian embassy in Britain first said that it was fake news, but the photographers provided all the evidence that it wasn't and that they took these photos.
How do we work during this time? We have reporters in different cities, of course. Actually, I visited Trostyanets, for example, last month and I met with Yuriy Bova. I saw these techniques with my own eyes.
Of course, we have a lot of open sources and choose how we control this information, how we control all these photos we receive. Of course, first of all, we were faced sometimes at the beginning of the war with some fake photos from a territory that was occupied by Russia during that time, but it was actually easy. We have a lot of open tools that help us to know what is photoshopped. A lot of other journalists work from this place and also give us the truth and give us an understanding of this situation.