Ukrainian military press: correspondence to lifetime

Abstract

Since 2014, materials and publications have become extremely popular in Ukraine, the content of which is connected with the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine. According to the results of sociological polls in 2018 – respondents named the conflict in the Donbas and Luhansk region the main problem of modern Ukraine. It’s not the first time when the history of the development of military journalism and the military media have attracted the attention of scientists, but it is still early to consider all issues relating to military buildings, in particular those that appeared during the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to characterize the content and image features of the public and private military media of Ukraine. To achieve this goal, it is supposed to analyze the most replicated and influential modern military media of Ukraine, as well as to consider the newly created edition of military subjects of the ATO / EP period and compare the features of their content during the information war.The object of the study: the central print edition of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “People’s Army” and the newspaper of the special purpose regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov” “Black Sun”. Comparing the two editions, we have come to the conclusion that both newspapers, first of all, are striving to widely and objectively cover the current problems of the Ukrainian army, its reform issues, talk about current events in the ATO / OOS zone, and also – and most importantly – take care of the formation of the reader’s audience of a positive image for the fatherland shield.The newspapers mentioned above have various circulations, different form their own content, different in lexical features, but adequately fulfill their main purpose: to provide the citizens of Ukraine with the information about the life of the modern army, which meets the requirements of the time.