Data Set
3465
Russian Informational Co-Aggression? Ukraine-Related Disinformation in Belarusian Pro-Government Telegram Channels
Version 1.3, published: Oct. 28, 2026.
Description
This dataset documents over 400 instances of Ukraine-related disinformation identified in more than 46,500 posts that appeared in 2024 across seven major pro-government Telegram channels in Belarus. These channels include: Belorusskiy silovik, Obyektivnyy Yevgen, Zholtyye slivy Premium, Eto drugoye, Zapadnyye zaychiki, BelVPO, and Nevolfovich. Data collection was guided by the definition of disinformation outlined in the Information Disorder report (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017), which defines disinformation as “information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organization, or country” (p. 20). The identified cases were grouped into recurring thematic clusters that emerged during the analysis. Prominent themes include: “Ukraine’s military draft,” “Negative public opinion on Ukraine-related matters in Western countries,” “Corruption.”
Details of the data collection procedure are provided in the accompanying documents, particularly the data documentation file.
New in this version (1.3): This version corrects the reported number of disinformation posts analyzed in the study (the previously reported figure of 80,000 was an inadvertent error). It also provides additional details on the data collection procedure. For users’ convenience, these details are now included in the data documentation file rather than the data description.
Countries
Keywords
Belarus Telegram Content Analysis Disinformation Ukraine War
Language of data
Disciplines
Comparative Politics, Media Studies