President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says that the Center for Countering Disinformation, the creation of which was announced earlier, will begin its operation soon and will become an international hub for countering propaganda and disinformation in the future.

"Today, Ukraine is at the forefront, in particular, and at the forefront of the fight against propaganda. At the UN, I came up with an initiative to create a Center for Countering Disinformation in Ukraine. In the near future it will begin its work and should become an international hub for countering disinformation and propaganda around the world," Zelensky said at the Ukraine 30. Culture. Media. Tourism forum in Kyiv on Tuesday.

At the same time, according to the head of state, "Ukrainians must understand that no such center can cope alone against the multi-billion dollar budget, in particular the Kremlin one."

"Therefore, each of us must learn one good habit [...] to think critically, to distinguish truth from fakes, truth from deception, read further than the headline, doubt, which is very important, check any information and sources, look for primary sources and keep our mind 'cold'. Therefore, media literacy lessons should appear in our school curricula. And those who graduated from school long ago – these are our grandparents – we must teach them what information hygiene is, and what are fake and propaganda," Zelensky said.

He added that "the further task of the state and society is to understand all threats to information security and find ways to counter them."

"The truth is that Ukraine will definitely win the information war, because there is no other way out. And, finally, not only in this war," Zelensky said.