that s dispersed. they using the cover of darkness to encircle the stay. of course that would take great deal of time, but i m trying to paint a picture that at nighttime families are trying to find safety. they re three weeks into this conflict now. sleepless families scared, tired, afraid, and also at the time when the military begins to move. and we re going to wake up to find out has this expanded, what new cities have been targeted and hit, what other civilians impact. president zelenskyy struck a slight note of i don t know if optimism is the right word but essentially saying that at least in any negotiations, at least they have gotten beyond kind of giving ultimatums each side one to another. that s what president zelenskyy seemed to indicate is along with his russian counterparts, they ve stopped trading ultimatums. they re now open and speaking. but this is a war that has sclatds do quickly, the fastest
extremist organization. this week meta suspended its hate speech policy allowing users to publish posts calling for violence against russian invaders, this as a harsh new law is cracking down on independent journalism in russia, threatening prison terms up to 15 years for spreading what officials deem as fake news about the military. the u.n. says the move now is to a total information blackout. as the war began, one of the last remaining independent news sources in russia, deutsch tavp, suspended operations, filling the air waves with swan lake as the staff signed off. a nod to the 1991 coup attempt of mikhail gorbachev. joining me is host for deutsch tv and her husband and editor in chief for the station. both of you, welcome to the program.
seriously the brains of people are destroyed by the propaganda which have been operating over the last 20 years. i heard a story about a person who was i think in kharkiv, and he was under shellings and under bombings, and he was calling his relatives in russia and saying we are being bombed. and the answer from russia was, no, thkis could not be true. you are being influenced by the ukrainian by nazism. by zelenskyy. so it is a huge problem. a lot of people, they just don t understand what is going on there. they just don t understand what is what has happened there. but still i don t believe in the idea that the majority of russians support this war because this war has no justification. even in 2014, crimea was
it s really important. and we understand that people are in need of information. they re texting us, and they re posting and commenting, asking i m sorry misha wants to talk to you bianna, as well. a future general there. yeah. so i can see, you know, being serious. i can see that there s a desperate need of information for people who are left there. and they are feared and scared to death that they will lose even, you know, some connections, even bloggers, even some people who can just cover something, you know, give them a free word. i don t know how we can handle this really. can you explain to our viewers who are trying to understand when they hear whatever polls they can get access to, because it s very difficult to get any sort of independent polling inside of russia today, but when they hear the headline that the majority of russians still support this war, when they hear stories
needs to do your most important job of parenting, it s fine. i understand that. he s coming. i m so sorry about that. no, no, of course. this is your most important priority right now is taking care of your kids. i can only imagine how difficult that must have been fleeing the country there with your children. there s misha, adorable little baby boy. katia, for our viewers to really understand what tv rain was, you were my eyes and ears and this of millions, hundreds of thousands of russians inside the country to get real information on what s playing out in the world in general but in russia, too, and obviously in ukraine. i mean, a week before the war began, you were interviewing in munich the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken, and within that week s time you re covering a war, which you were getting more and more, you know,