Ukrainians Made NATO Nervous At The Exercises

• 7.06.2026, 22:55

The exercise took place in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

The NATO team defeated Ukrainian specialists who simulated Russian cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns during the exercise with only a slight advantage. This was reported by Financial Times on June 7.

The purpose of the exercise was to test allied countries' readiness to counter the disinformation campaigns Ukraine has faced daily since Russia's full-scale invasion.

Attack by a fictional state called Karti was simulated in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, home to the only NATO facility staffed and operated jointly by Alliance and Ukrainian representatives.

The three-day simulation included online campaigns aimed at disorienting the local population in a crisis. In one scenario, the fictional country of Peranza found itself in a blackout due to a cyberattack.

Participants also tested how authorities would interact in the event of a major flood and if hackers broke into the banking system.

Ukraine was cast as the villains of Carty, who flooded social media with artificial intelligence-generated messages blaming each crisis on government incompetence and corruption while offering aid to affected residents.

The Peranza team responded with calls for national unity and warnings about looting and other forms of rioting.

The jury scored the Karti team only narrowly behind in the two scenarios.