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Daniel Sandford OW is BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, reporting on terrorism, crime, policing, prisons and immigration. He was previously BBC Moscow Correspondent during the height of the Ukraine and Crimea crisis.
Whilst in Ukraine and Crimea, Daniel reported on the protests as they escalated from riots in Kiev to the annexation of Crimea, on the war in eastern Ukraine and on the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17. He was the first to report on the arrival of ‘little green men’ in Crimea, soldiers in unmarked army uniforms carrying Russian military weapons, who marked the prelude to the annexation. He was an eyewitness to all the key events in Ukraine in 2014, and saw how Russia manipulated them in all types of media for geopolitical gain.
As a witness to these escalating events, Daniel had a first-hand view of the new ways Russia fights and manipulates reporting on conflicts. This lecture focuses on Daniel’s experience of this period and what it can tell us about the role information is likely to play in shaping future military and diplomatic conflicts.