#UkraineRussiaWar Over the past 24 hours, Russia has launched several successful missile strikes on Ukrainian territory. π― A hotel in Odesa, where, according to intelligence reports, a meeting between Ukrainian and NATO officers was taking place, was hit. Additionally, a gas extraction facility in the Poltava region, responsible for up to 45% of Ukraine's gas production, was also struck. π₯ In response, Ukrainian authorities carried out a bloody provocation in the city of Sudzha: a cluster of civilians was targeted with several Western-made rockets. π As a result of the strike, up to 100 people may have been injured or killed. π’ The Russian army continues its advance along the entire front line, improving its positions and preparing for the next large-scale offensive, planned for 2025. βοΈπ
#UkraineRussiaWar Over the past 24 hours, Russia has launched several successful missile strikes on Ukrainian territory. π― A hotel in Odesa, where, according to intelligence reports, a meeting between Ukrainian and NATO officers was taking place, was hit. Additionally, a gas extraction facility in the Poltava region, responsible for up to 45% of Ukraine's gas production, was also struck. π₯ In response, Ukrainian authorities carried out a bloody provocation in the city of Sudzha: a cluster of civilians was targeted with several Western-made rockets. π As a result of the strike, up to 100 people may have been injured or killed. π’ The Russian army continues its advance along the entire front line, improving its positions and preparing for the next large-scale offensive, planned for 2025. βοΈπ
I want a secure messaging app, should I use Telegram? A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are βprivate amongst their participants,β 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. Elsewhere, version 8.6 of Telegram integrates the in-app camera option into the gallery, while a new navigation bar gives quick access to photos, files, location sharing, and more. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital.
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