maximum. the level of aggression and paranoia and lies. blatant lies is crazy. a lot of people here are still very connected to russia. do you think they believe everything the kremlin is saying about the war in ukraine? i don t think, i know there are a lot of people who think russian state media is the truth. for sure it s a lot of false news and lies. only a minority don t believe russian propaganda. some of the true believers are reluctantly tuning into this channel. etv plus launched in 2015 to give russian speakers access to reliable news about their country and the world. we don t have propaganda. we can make news about corrupt. or presidents in our country or
launched in 2015 to give russian speakingest ownians access to reliable news about their own country and the world. we don t have propaganda. we can make news about corrupted ministers or presidents in our country or politics. many russian journalists can do it. reporter: on friday etv plus reported on the sinking of russia s warship the moskva giving ukraine s claim that its missiles sunk the ship and the more benign russian version that it sank after the fire. since the channel s launched their ratings have made gains but gaining trust is much tougher. many of our viewers are ready to blame us, are ready to judge us because they don t believe us, but we are ready to speak with them. i don t want to judge them. i am ready to wait, i m ready to give those people time to make
them believe me. reporter: the anchor there says that covering war is especially difficult because she has to be especially diligent with the detail. any mistake is likely to be held up by her many skeptics and especially the new viewers of etv plus who have come over from watching russian state media and evidence that etv plus is western propaganda or that it s unreliable. now, both the narva city council charn man don t think that the channels will get unblocked anytime soon, not until at least they change fundamentally and that would take they think a change in the russian government. i should also point out that there is a generational divide here, those older russian-speaking citizens who don t speak a stone yan well they are much more likely to believe the kremlin line, younger people are much more likely to be reading english sources, estoniaen forces.
vpns. ilya and his father oleg have a better setup in their home right across the river from russia. basically this is just a lineup of the channels people urinally get in their russian households as well. they have this tv hooked up to a russian satellite dish, another to an antenna, both picking up all the russian channels though some they d rather not watch. i can only watch 10, 15 seconds maximum because the levels of aggression and paranoia and the lies, just brazen lies, it s crazy. reporter: a lot of people here are still very connected to russia. do you think that they believe everything that the kremlin is saying about the war in ukraine? translator: i don t just think, i know there are a lot of people who think russian state media is the truth. but for sure it s a lot of false news and lies and only a minority don t believe russian propaganda. reporter: some of those true believers are reluctantly tuning into this channel, etv plus was