Ukraine and UK Advance Joint Fight Against Russian Disinformation

Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation and the UK’s most senior government communications official have met in Kyiv to advance joint efforts against Russian information operations. 

The meeting, held in Kyiv, brought together Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation, and his deputy Anait Hoperia, with David Dinsmore, the UK’s Permanent Secretary Director of Government Communications, as the Centre reported.

Dinsmore, appointed to the newly created role in November 2025 after serving as Chief Operating Officer of News UK, leads the Government Communication Service — the professional body coordinating communications across all UK government departments — and works directly with the Prime Minister’s office and Cabinet.

Discussions focused on coordinating efforts to counter foreign information interference and exchanging best practices in government communications. The Ukrainian side said his visit “demonstrates London’s strong interest in deepening cooperation with Ukraine on the information front.”

The talks fall under the framework of the 100-year partnership agreement signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Kyiv in January 2025, which President Zelenskyy ratified in September 2025.

The agreement — an expansion of the bilateral security deal concluded in January 2024 — covers ten areas of cooperation, one of which is explicitly dedicated to “jointly countering foreign information manipulation and interference”. The century-long timeframe is highly unusual in international relations and reflects the agreement’s explicitly generational ambition.

“We continue systematic work aimed at strengthening the resilience of the national and global information space,” the Ukrainian Centre stated following the meeting.