On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched a military aggression against Ukraine. Almost all regions of Ukraine were subjected to missile and bomb attacks, and Russian troops crossed the border in the north, east and south of our country. Not only military facilities but also residential buildings, hospitals, ambulances and kindergartens came under target fire. There were children among the dead.
In Russia, this information is being hushed up, and Roskomnadzor is imposing sanctions on the media that are objectively covering the events of those days in Ukraine. In an address by the Russian Union of Journalists on February 25, you cautiously refer to what is happening as a “grave crisis”. But this is not a “crisis” – this is war! You hope that you will come out of this “crisis” with minimal losses, but that is no longer the case. The Ukrainian people have and will continue to put up a strong resistance to the occupiers. During the first three days of the war alone, the Russian casualties were over three thousand (!) people, and several hundred soldiers surrendered as prisoners of war. Are these the “minimal losses” that Roskomnadzor forbids you to talk about?!
Inform at least in your regions about the existence of the website “Seek Your Own” (https://200rf.com/), where they began to post information about the dead and captured Russians who came with weapons to the sovereign territory of Ukraine. Let the relatives know about their fate and draw conclusions.
We can understand the restrictions on your freedom of speech, but you urge us to remember the enormous responsibility that journalists now have, including the responsibility to provide truthful and balanced information to your own people. Heed your own call! Help yourselves, do everything in your power as journalists to stop this war and bring every Russian soldier and officer home. They have no place in our Ukraine!
STOP THE WAR!
