Пока повстанцы с севера входят в Хомс, другие — с юга, занимают окраины Дамаска. Одновременно правительственные силы теряют пустыню и ту самую Пальмиру. Ходят слухи, что семья Асада уже покинула страну, а российские военные ативно готовятся к эвакуации своих баз в Тартусе и Латакии.
Пока повстанцы с севера входят в Хомс, другие — с юга, занимают окраины Дамаска. Одновременно правительственные силы теряют пустыню и ту самую Пальмиру. Ходят слухи, что семья Асада уже покинула страну, а российские военные ативно готовятся к эвакуации своих баз в Тартусе и Латакии.
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.”
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