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might actually reveal that that information is true. and that s how we re able to use those tangible facts to cross reference and prove what s actually there on the ground. and that s how we prove that link and that proof in the pudding there. and francis, a us congresswoman by the name of elissa slotkin was lampooned by some last week when she advised ukrainians, if russia does invade, she said, flood the internet with pictures and videos, with all the embarrassing content you can get for the russian people to see that their leader is a fraud and a thug. does putin fear embarrassing posts on social media? well, on the one hand, the kremlin does keep its finger firmly on the pulse of public opinion. and even commissions polls to see how people are viewing sensitive issues. but i personally think she s kind of misread russian society here, because for the last few years, especially on state tv, people have been fed this cocktail of conspiracy theories and sometimes even just outrigh
by the us and uk to ukraine are being described as actually whipping up tensions in the region. and actually they re saying that the west are simply pumping the ukraine full of weapons and preparing it to attack the rebels in the east the donetsk and lugansk republics. and what about the ukrainian media? sarah rainsford, our colleague, the bbc correspondent, said that east of kyiv many ukrainians that she met there said they hadn t watched the news since 2014 to protect their nerves. well, ukrainian media are largely behind the government there. they re obviously saying ukraine is the victim and russia is the aggressor. the rebel republics in the east are terrorist organisations, according to them. but of course, they re really having to play this juggling game between statements from the west western governments are saying that russia is imminently about to invade
and the ukrainian government, which is saying hang on, calm down, guys, things aren t quite as drastic as that quite yet. regarding people s anxiety in the ukraine, i was speaking to a colleague in our kyiv team the other day and she was saying that there are definitely a lot of people who have kind of resigned themselves to the fact there may be a russian invasion. they can t do anything about it if it happens so in the meantime they may as well save their mental health by avoiding all the anxiety of watching the news. right. so clearly the way it s being reported in the region is very different depending on where you are. but what about this from andrey pertsev,
whether a place was likely to be a camp or not. we corroborated that using eyewitness reports, we spoke to dozens of former detainees, several who were able to point us directly to where they were being held for support government tender documents in our media reports. and you won the pulitzer prize for this? yeah, we won the pulitzer prize for international reporting for this work. that s amazing. i want to hear more about your work in a moment. i m trying to speak. i want to hear about your work at the moment because you re not only concentrating on ukraine and russia, you re also doing a lot of analysis of myanmar. tell us a bit about that.