Pavel: Czechia in information war against Russia

Czechia is not in a conventional war with Russia, but it is engaged in an information war, Czech President Petr Pavel said in his opening speech at the Media and Ukraine conference in Prague on Thursday. He added that the groundwork for the Russian war in Ukraine had been being laid in the information space for a long time prior to the invasion, information being the first target of military aggressors in wartime because separating people from the truth helps them to win.

Czech Radio, which is organising the conference, was the target of a massive hacking attack on the day of the conference, due to which its website was inaccessible since the early morning. The public broadcaster stated that the reason for the cyberattack appears to be the conference itself.