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Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation Uses the Osavul AI Platform to Track Russian Information Operations

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Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation uses the privately built Osavul AI platform to scan social media for Russian-linked disinformation campaigns, including fabricated videos, though metrics come mainly from the vendor and no independent accuracy audit exists.

$1 million
Osavul seed funding raised (2023)
Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation Uses the Osavul AI Platform to Track Russian Information Operations

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), using the Osavul software platform
Period
2022–present
Keywords
Defense, Information security, Public communication

Context

Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), a working body of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) established in March 2021, has used the Osavul software platform since around 2022 to scan social media and messaging channels for narrative patterns linked to Russian information operations.

Objectives

The AI/NLP system helps CCD analysts identify coordinated inauthentic campaigns — including AI-generated deepfakes and fabricated content — faster than manual review would allow, feeding into Ukraine's wartime information-security response.

Activities

Osavul, the Kyiv-based startup behind the platform, raised $1 million in seed funding from the SMRK fund in 2023, and its tool is provided to CCD and other Ukrainian defense-sector bodies.

Results

Public examples of detected campaigns — such as fabricated BBC-branded videos and AI-amplified propaganda narratives — have been reported by policy outlets including the Global Governance Forum and European tech press.

Conclusions

This is not a government-built AI system: the underlying technology is owned and operated by a private vendor, and most public claims about its capabilities originate from Osavul and its investors rather than an independent evaluator or CCD's own technical disclosures. No published accuracy, precision or false-positive rate exists, and Ukrainian media have separately raised concerns about CCD's own consistency in labeling domestic content as disinformation.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No government spending figures disclosed; Osavul (vendor) raised $1 million in seed funding in 2023.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — CCD established March 2021; has used Osavul continuously since around 2022.
Staffing & skills
CCD analysts (NSDC working body), Osavul (private vendor, Kyiv-based startup)

Conditions for success

  • a dedicated institutional monitoring body (CCD) integrating vendor tooling into wartime information-security response
  • vendor received external seed investment enabling platform development

Common failure modes

  • no published accuracy, precision or false-positive rate for the detection system
  • the underlying AI methodology is proprietary to a private vendor with no independent evaluation
  • Ukrainian media have raised concerns about CCD's own consistency in labelling domestic content as disinformation

Where it fits

Governance type
national security/defense council working body relying on a private vendor
Scale
national, ongoing since 2022
Income level
lower-middle-income, wartime context (Ukraine)

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