 Medan 3. Russia prepares disinformation plan to destabilize Ukraine. Russia seeks to sow division within Ukrainian society, creating chaos within the country and ultimately removing the president according to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Our intelligence has information which also came from our partners, said Zelensky describing the disinformation plan known as Medan 3. Medan is a coup for them, so the operation is understandable, he said. Recently, online.ua, media outlet, citing its own sources in the security and defence sector, reported that Russian special services began a large-scale information attack called Medan 3. The goal of this attack is to destabilize Ukraine. According to media reports, the Russian special services plan to carry out a new information attack on Ukraine in November to December 2023. The curator of the operation according to the publication is Sergei Kirienko, the first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration and the ideologist is Vladislav Sarkov, one of the authors of the Novorossiya project. The overarching goal is to sow political instability, incite protest sentiments and exert influence on the international anti-Putin coalition. The operation is designed to be multi-vector, targeting different parts of the world. The Russian's aim is to deploy traditional tactics such as spreading panic, creating despondency and fabricating conflicts among politicians and the military.