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Analysis of the Russian doctrine, strategic thought and practice in the Ukrainian conflict shows that the Kremlin has developed the concept of “new wars” or “new generation of wars”. In this concept one can find the “information wars”, “reflective governance” and “mutiny wars”. In the matter of fact it is the reaction to the western concept of “information warfare” and “hybrid war”. The Ukrainian conflict is probably kind of a training ground of the Russian special services, both military (GRU) and the SVR. In the concept of “new wars” special services has to play the main role as a useful tool but also as an intellectual background.