"Today, our battlefield against Russian invasion is not only at the front line but also in the realm of information space in this deceptive hybrid war. "We're also sure that there was no such project before, in which Ukrainians explain our news in English and Chinese through the lenses of history and culture," Leliukh added.Īnother of the pages' administrators, Mariana Savchenko, who spent one-third of her life in China, said she understood perfectly "the importance of skillfully tailored narratives, the efficiency of soft power, the danger of censorship and the force of propaganda." Shyn said that activists in Taiwan also hoped to "draw the attention of the Taiwanese people to Ukraine once again" given its reduced public prominence in recent weeks.įellow page founder Kateryna Leliukh told CNA that they had a "very clear vision about our mission and goal of the project." He hopes that the pages will become the primary source of information about Ukraine for people in Taiwan.
One of the goals of the Ukrainian Voices pages was to remain "in control of our narratives," according to Shyn. "Even just regular people who asked me, one of the first questions is, how do you make peace with your Russian brothers?" he said, adding that Ukraine and Russia are "not brotherly nations in a temporary war," as some in Taiwan and other parts of the world believe. Shyn, a Ukrainian MBA student in Taiwan, said that many Taiwanese he met believed that Moscow's ongoing military intervention was somehow justified by his home country's large Russian-speaking minority.
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Taipei, July 28 (CNA) A group of Ukrainians in Taiwan has recently launched "Ukrainian Voices," a series of bilingual social media pages aimed at sharing first-hand accounts of life in the country following its invasion by Russia earlier this year.Īccording to 27-year-old Oleksandr Shyn, one of the founders of Ukrainian Voices, the impetus for the Facebook and Twitter pages came after he realized that some people in Taiwan were being fed Russian narratives on the situation in Ukraine.
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