Ukraine’s Defense Ministry outlines unexpected way to stop the war: No weapons needed

Serhii Beskrestnov (callsign "Flash"), an advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine and a military technology expert, stated that one of the realistic ways to accelerate the end of the war is through informational influence on the Russian population via the internet.

He wrote about this on his Telegram channel.

According to Beskrestnov, the Russian leadership is ready to continue the war against Ukraine in its current format for an extended period, possessing sufficient resources to replenish personnel and manufacture weapons.

"I think everyone has already realized that the leadership of the Russian Federation is ready to wage this war in its current format for a very long time. Finding 30,000 people every month to send to their deaths just to hold the front lines is not a problem," noted the advisor to the Minister of Defense.

At the same time, he believes that a key factor that could affect the pace of ending the war is the reaction of Russian society to the consequences of the fighting and the domestic problems caused by the conflict.

"A real opportunity to speed up the end of the war lies in the reaction of the Russian population to our actions. Previously, the SMO was somewhere far away, but now it has suddenly hit close to home," Beskrestnov wrote.

He says Ukrainians should make more active use of the Internet as a tool for conveying information to Russian citizens, demonstrating the impact of the war on Russians' everyday lives and explaining the causes of these problems.

"If you want to stop the war, help influence the people of the Russian Federation via the internet. Russians everywhere need to be told the real reasons for their current problems and the ways to eliminate them," he said.

Beskrestnov also called for spreading more content from Russia's regions across the information space so that the country's residents can see the scale of the war's consequences for their own state.

In his view, informational influence is a crucial component of modern conflicts alongside active combat.
"Not all wars take place on the battlefield. Cognitive warfare is one of them. And we at the Ministry of Defense know what that is," concluded the advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine.