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VoxUkraine is an independent and non partisan analytical platform founded and managed by a group of highly experienced and accomplished economists and lawyers based in Ukraine and abroad. VoxUkraine aims at supporting economic reforms in the country through promoting research-based policy analysis and independent assessment of economic developments, raising quality of economic policy discussion, conducting watch-dog activities and integrating Ukraine into the global network of economists and public policy leaders.

21/05/2026

The threat has changed.

Disinformation today does not primarily try to convince. It tries to exhaust.
After every Russian strike on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, we at VoxUkraine see the same pattern: not one explanation, but five competing ones. Within the first hour - before rescue workers have finished their work - at least five different versions are already circulating. Ukraine attacked itself. Air defence caused it. A Western missile fell short. The video was staged. The building was a military target.

Each version contradicts the others. Every version leads to the same conclusion: Russia is not responsible.

The goal is not for any single version to be believed. The goal is for the factual record itself to become blurred - for audiences to stop trusting the possibility of shared facts at all. "Believe no one" turns out to be more powerful than "believe us." It does not require the audience to accept the aggressor's narrative. It only requires them to stop trusting that we can ever agree on what is true.

We call this layer of the threat cognitive security - the protection of the conditions under which a society can still know what is true. The framework draws on inoculation theory, the neuroscience of attention, and four years of operational data from verifying Russian campaigns against Ukraine.

Today in The Hague, our Deputy Executive Director Svitlana Slipchenko opens EANA Spring Conference 2026 with this framework - addressed to Europe's news agencies, the institutions that supply verified information to the wider system. The infrastructure that downstream newsrooms, platforms, and increasingly AI summarisation systems all depend on.

The tactics we verify in Ukraine today - cloned media brands, AI-generated video, coordinated narrative bursts, the deliberate exhaustion of verification itself - will not stay in Ukraine. The question is not whether they reach Europe. It is when, in what form, and whether warning systems will be fast enough to recognise them.

Ukraine is not a distant case study. Ukraine is an early-warning system.

Photo: dsns_kyiv / Telegram

13/05/2026

According to UNICEF, Ukraine's children are falling behind by 1–2 years in key subjects due to the pandemic and the full-scale war. Yet the problem is much broader: classes are held amid anxiety, exhaustion, unreliable access to lessons, and a lack of face-to-face interaction.

52% of teachers and 75.5% of school psychologists believe that at least half of students need psychological support. About a third of children report trouble concentrating, 36% often feel tired, and the average level of academic anxiety has reached 8.7 out of 16.

With the education system operating under constant pressure, programs that provide quick, targeted support to children take on special importance. In 2025, 1,503 children participated in the Catch Up Learning program from the Children of Heroes Charity Fund. Over four years, the Fund provided more than 1.3 million hours of educational services and 5,327 devices for online learning.

For many children, such support is an opportunity to keep pace with their education, prepare for entrance exams, and rebuild confidence in their own future. Children of Heroes continues to raise funds for educational support for children who have lost one or both parents due to the war.

Support the fundraiser: link in the comments 👇

11/05/2026

What can regulation reveal about the progress of digital transformation?

The second volume of the GovTech Reform Index, produced by Vox Ukraine in cooperation with the Global Government Technology Centre in Kyiv, analyses regulatory changes shaping digital transformation in Ukraine in Q3–Q4 2025.

This edition covers 249 regulatory acts — more than twice as many as in the first half of 2025. While the Index stood at 1.98 in both Q1 and Q2 2025, it stabilised at 1.84 in Q3 and Q4, reflecting a shift from more innovation-driven initiatives towards more detailed and implementation-ready secondary legislation.

Key findings:
▪️ E-Government remained the leading area by number of regulatory acts.
▪️ Regulatory changes in Q3–Q4 were assessed as more feasible to implement under current conditions, but generally less innovative.
▪️ Cybersecurity became a stronger focus in Q4, including new rules for cyber incident response and vulnerability identification.
▪️ Among the highest-scoring developments were updates related to open data, digital transport permits, Diia.Engine, online divorce, digital identity wallets, and automated emissions monitoring.

The GovTech Reform Index helps systematically track Ukraine’s digital reforms through regulatory analysis, and can also serve as a reference model for other governments looking to monitor reform initiatives and prevent anti-reforms.

Read the full report – link in the first comment 👇

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The publication was prepared with the support of the Askold and Dir Fund as a part of the Strong Civil Society of Ukraine – a Driver towards Reforms and Democracy project, implemented by ISAR Ednannia, funded by Norway and Sweden, as well as with the support of the Swiss–Ukrainian EGAP Program, implemented by the Eastern Europe Foundation.

02/04/2026

April 2 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Kyiv Oblast from Russian occupiers in 2022. The world then witnessed evidence of Russian atrocities in the de-occupied territories. Russia wasted no time launching a large-scale disinformation campaign to conceal its war crimes.

In these cards, we break down Russia's key methods of deception.

03/03/2026

In 2018, a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) analyzed 126,000 news cascades on Twitter (now X), shared by around three million users. The result was striking: false news spread faster, deeper, and more widely than true news. Moreover, the most dramatic gap was not in medicine or finance, but in politics.

Most notably, bots accelerated the spread of both true and false news at roughly the same rate. Falsehood prevailed not because of technology, but because of people. False news triggered surprise, fear, and disgust, whereas the truth elicited sadness, predictability, and trust. In other words, false stories spread more successfully because they are more emotionally compelling than the truth.

This study by Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral, published in Science, became one of the most cited scientific papers of 2018. More importantly, over the following six years, its findings were confirmed, extended, and refined by dozens of subsequent studies. It is these studies that are now reshaping our understanding of how to counter disinformation.

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24/02/2026

On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we recall how russians justified their attack and why these “arguments” make no sense.

23/02/2026

One shorthand for putin’s view of Ukrainians is that they are merely “russians with funny accents“—a regional variation of the same people, culture, and destiny. In reality, Ukrainians and russians are very different. But even if one accepts the “one people” premise for the sake of argument, it does not justify invasion—not morally, not legally, and not politically.

Shared language, culture, or ancestry has never conferred a right to rule by force. Yet states pursuing imperial projects have repeatedly relied on this claim.

More — in the article (link in the first comment) 👇

20/02/2026

When Ukraine regained independence in 1991, its real GDP per capita was on a par with those of the more prosperous Eastern European economies of the former Soviet bloc (Figure 1). By 2022, Ukraine was one of the poorest countries in Europe. While there are many reasons for this dramatic reversal of fortunes for Ukraine, a durable ceasefire or peace agreement will initiate a new epoch in Ukraine’s post-Soviet development.

Apart from the immediate demands of damage repair and demobilization, Ukraine will need to overcome long-term structural challenges to the supply of key factors of production, as well as to ensure grants, loans, and other financial resources from abroad. Governance reforms in the public and private sectors will be a necessary complement. The challenges may seem insurmountable, but as we argue in Gorodnichenko and Obstfeld (2026), there are good paths forward.

More — in the article (link in the first comment) 👇

20/02/2026

⚡ Energy independence has become an important factor in the survival of Ukrainian businesses. According to a Deloitte survey, 76% of companies are affected by prolonged power outages, while 88% say they are prepared for such disruptions.

The most popular solution for enterprises seeking energy independence is generators (74%). A significant share of companies (41%) are installing batteries, and many businesses are also implementing energy-efficiency measures.

More — in the article (link in the first comment). ⤵

20/02/2026

Between December 22 and January 18, 60 draft laws were registered in the Verkhovna Rada: five submitted by the President, nine by the government, and 46 by MPs.

🔸 The government proposes improving the Diia.City regime by simplifying the requirements for residents and launching new venture instruments to invest in Ukrainian technology companies.

🔸 Other draft laws would introduce a register of individuals’ bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes, as well as new rules to protect whistleblowers in the field of financial monitoring.

🔸 In addition, Parliament is to consider new rules for the privatization of state property, the abolition of the minimum heat payment, and a ban on Russian as a language of instruction in private schools.

More details — in the article (link in the first comment). 👇

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