Propaganda and disinformation are nothing new in war, but digital technology and social media are fuelling it like never before, creating an ‘extremely dangerous’ situation in Ukraine and other warzones, for vulnerable civilians exercising their rights.

That’s according to the independent UN human rights expert on freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, who tells us the “information blackout” inside Russia itself has wiped out any news independent of the State, offering encouragement to other aggressors around the world.

The UN News Russian service’s Nargiz Shekinskaya began by asked Special Rapporteur Khan if she saw any common themes in how information is being abused in warzones across the world today.