Published 2024-12-30
Keywords
- spiritual security, information war, values, national idea, information society.
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Copyright (c) 2025 Iryna Denysenko, Volodymyr Chalapko, Roman Zorkin, Petro Fivkin, Iryna Ushno

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Abstract
The essential characteristics of the spiritual security of Ukrainian society are analyzed. It is noted that spiritual security is a system-forming factor in the development of a democratic state in Ukraine in the conditions of an information war and a full-scale Russian invasion. The sources of threats and the main threats to the spiritual security of the national society caused by the information war are revealed. The value bases of the spiritual security of the Ukrainian state have been studied. Dialectical, structural-functional and comparative methods were used in the research process. The article states that the spiritual security of the national society is aimed at protecting national values and development priorities, the mental and civilizational basis of the existence of the Ukrainian people and preserving its cultural identity in the global processes of modernity. The conclusion is drawn that the restructuring of the hierarchy of values in the consciousness of Ukrainian citizens, as the basis for the existence of spiritual security, occurred most intensively during pivotal historical events – the Orange Revolution (2004-2005), the Revolution of Dignity (2013-2014), and the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022.
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