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Russia's two leading social networks have blocked Current Time's content at the request of the country's media regulator, in the latest government move to clamp down on independent news organizations.
As Russia wages a brutal war against Ukraine, targeting civilian areas and drawing global condemnation, many people living in Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea consume false narratives promoted by Kremlin-controlled media.
Russia's Economic Development Ministry has drafted legislation aimed at preventing the mounting exit of international businesses from Russia over the war in Ukraine, and potentially laying the groundwork for nationalizing them.
Increasing numbers of residents are leaving their homes northwest of Kyiv. Current Time reporter Roman Sukhan accompanied a police bus that evacuated people from the town of Hostomel to the Ukrainian capital. Some left after days spent in basements without electricity and heating.
CCTV video has surfaced showing a car carrying two pensioners being blown apart by an armored column at a crossroads in Makariv in the Kyiv region on February 28. The man and woman inside were killed. A witness on the scene identified the attackers as Russian forces.
A Ukrainian man who is lucky to be alive after an armored vehicle hit his car in Kyiv on February 25 has thanked his rescuers and said that he would join Ukraine's territorial defense forces as soon as he recovers.
Singers and musicians, young and old, have been recorded performing as they try to raise the morale of Ukrainians taking cover in bomb shelters, in the Kyiv subway, and other threatened areas around the country as Russia's war on Ukraine continues.
The city of Irpin, a short distance from the Ukrainian capital, has come under heavy attack from Russian forces massed nearby. Residential areas have been devastated, driving out the residents, with many hoping to reach Kyiv.
Thousands of people are trying to flee the Ukrainian city of Irpin for the capital, Kyiv, almost 25 kilometers away. Ukrainian forces have blown up bridges near the city to stop advancing Russian tanks. Current Time filmed local residents trying to escape Russian shelling.
Speaking to Current Time on March 7, Kherson resident Pavlo Keba described the dire conditions in the Ukrainian city occupied by Russian forces. He said that the humanitarian situation is becoming critical because, in his words: "There is no food supplied to the city."
Several Russian television channels have been hacked and had their programming substituted with coverage of the war in Ukraine by independent broadcasters Current Time and Dozhd TV, outlets blocked in Russia by the authorities.
Residential buildings were in flames in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv on March 7. The city is on a strategic route between Kherson, which is occupied by Russian forces, and the port city of Odesa. Residents of Odesa and Zaporizhzhya are preparing to defend their cities.
Thousands of people have been detained at protests in dozens of cities across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine, the Russian Interior Ministry and an independent protest monitor said on March 6.
Despite heavy shelling of the predominantly Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv, it is still under Ukrainian control. Though many people have fled the city, those who have stayed describe increasingly grim conditions that are difficult to escape.
Across Ukraine, schools have been destroyed in Russian shelling and air strikes. In one, an injured child made a video on her Instagram feed saying: "I hope things are better where you are.... Send this video to all your Russian friends."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law into effect that calls for sentences of up to 15 years in prison for people who distribute "false news" about the Russian military.
Thousands of people from across Ukraine continued to flood into the main railway station in the western city of Lviv on March 4 with the hope of traveling to neighboring Poland. Current Time spoke to some of those who had fled from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Patients and medical staff at Ukraine's largest children's hospital have been forced to shelter in the building's basement as Russian forces continue to shell and advance on Kyiv.
Staff at Ukrainian nuclear sites, Zaporizhzhya and Chernobyl, are being held by Russian forces and working under the barrel of a gun, according to the former head of Ukraine's nuclear inspectorate. Speaking to Current Time on March 4, Hrihory Plachkov said it was an extremely dangerous situation.
Many Russians are being fed a daily media diet of Kremlin propaganda that hides the terrible destruction and human cost of their country's invasion of Ukraine. So how did ordinary Russians in Perm and Vladivostok react when Current Time reporters showed them some images?
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