Russia fired more than 1,000 shells into the Ukrainian city of Kherson this morning. Locals say it is the largest shelling of the city since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine. Russian troops have shelled the city's civilian infrastructure
🇺🇦 Сьогодні зранку росія випустила по українському місту Херсон понад 1000 снарядів. Місцеві кажуть, що це найбільший обстріл міста з початку війни росії проти України. Російські війська обстріляли цивільну міську інфраструктуру
Russia fired more than 1,000 shells into the Ukrainian city of Kherson this morning. Locals say it is the largest shelling of the city since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine. Russian troops have shelled the city's civilian infrastructure
🇺🇦 Сьогодні зранку росія випустила по українському місту Херсон понад 1000 снарядів. Місцеві кажуть, що це найбільший обстріл міста з початку війни росії проти України. Російські війська обстріляли цивільну міську інфраструктуру
Telegram Messenger Blocks Navalny Bot During Russian Election But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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