Digitalization of International Relations as a Factor in the Sustainable Development of Ukraine

Abstract

This article details Ukraine's strategy for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of countering the Russian Federation's hybrid information manipulation in the cyber and telecommunications network of the Internet, which threatens global stability, civil egalitarianism, constructive cooperation, inclusiveness, and peaceful coexistence. It highlights the results of the activities of Ukrainian authorities to ensure the functioning of international agencies «Stop Russia Channel»,«Vox Ukraine», «Euromaidan Press», «Internews-Ukraine», «Lets Data», «TEXTY», «Inform Napalm», «Chesno», «Ukraine Crisis Media Centre» (UCMC), «Stop Fake», «Vox Check», «Detector Media», «Fact Check-Ukraine» and «Gra Sliv», which are integrated into the scientific and educational programmes of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to diversify society's competencies in refuting Russian disinformation. A comprehensive analysis of the regulatory and legal framework for the implementation by the Ukrainian authorities of the instructions of Goals 4, 10, 16, and 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of optimising the digital infrastructure for debunking Moscow's disinformation, with the aim of reforming transnational dialogue on the UN's doctrines of civilisational virtual tolerance, equality, high levels of education, mutual rational benefit and pragmatic inter-state cooperation. The results of the implementation of joint projects between Ukraine, the EU and NATO within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to update the cybersecurity network and filter digital content in the media, repositories, social applications and electronic communication services from fictitious discrediting campaigns by the Russian Federation with theexploitation of«FotoForensics»,«Skeptive»,«Lazy Truth», «Rev Eye Reverse Image Search», «Trooclick», «Truth Goggles», «Image Edited?», «Setting the Record Straight» and «Who stole my pictures».