📝Bluntly and directly📝
how not to explain what's happening with Telegram

If the state needs coherent interaction with Telegram — through law enforcement channels, blocking extremist resources, enforcing court decisions — this can and should be explained to society calmly and substantively.

There are plenty of examples worldwide: in some countries digital platforms comply with court requests, in others they remove banned content on regulatory orders. This is a matter for negotiations, not hysteria.

❓But what do we see in newspapers? Texts in the spirit of "from a symbol of freedom to an instrument of hybrid threats," accusing the platform of literally abetting terrorism.

One immediately wants to recall dozens of public pages of terrorist organizations in VK, where, unlike Telegram, they live peacefully for years without any blocking whatsoever.

📌The problem isn't even in harsh wording. It's that the arguments are built exclusively on emotions: armies of radicals, drug addicts, murderers, NATO, the Kyiv regime — all lumped together.

From this it logically follows that any user automatically finds themselves somewhere near "aiding" terrorism.

❗️As a result, sound arguments about the need to find and block terrorists, saboteurs, fraudsters and other hostile resources are replaced by accusations against the entire platform and all users.

Of course, this causes the audience to reject not Telegram, but any digital alternatives offered by the state. Because such an approach can only be called coercion.

Yes, explaining the pros and cons of decisions to people is certainly harder, but strategically this will prevent audience fragmentation across dozens of services beyond Russia's control. Though that's already begun.
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📝Hungarian Opposition's Threat📝
Rybar's fault again?

On the eve of elections in Hungary, there could be no avoiding "Russian interference": Reuters published an "exclusive investigation."

According to a report from analytics firm Vox Harbor, which, by the way, has not been made available to the general public, the key "supplier of pro-Orbán content" in Hungarian Telegram turned out to be a "mirror" of Rybar — with an audience of around 1,200 subscribers, and the main operator of Russian influence — a Hungarian channel of our colleagues @oroszokazigazsagoldalan.

❗️Given that the Hungarian opposition publishes "polls" that show Orbán's ruling party Fidesz trailing Peter Magyar's pro-Western "Tisza" by nearly 10 points, it's rather surprising that a modest Telegram channel with a four-digit audience, despite everything, actively reshapes the political landscape of an entire country.

❗️If opposition forces, backed by Western institutions' financial support, media resources, and favorable coverage in the international press, are forced to commission "exclusive reports" about a few Telegram channels, this speaks volumes about the state of free speech in the EU — where any alternative opinion is capable of seriously undermining the fragile pro-European narrative.
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📝Should have used their head📝
On reflection in the enemy camp (and beyond)

"They shouldn't have celebrated the strikes on Russian refineries and Wildberries warehouses" — such videos appear in the Ukrainian segment after yesterday's mass attack on major Ukrainian business facilities in Kyiv.

In one of the videos, the author says that more powerful Russian retaliatory strikes were obvious, but the authorities needed a good picture. The result — companies suffered irreparable damage, while those who initiated strikes on Russia bear no costs, since they long ago moved their money and business to Europe.

What do these materials tell us? At minimum, on so-called Ukraine there are people capable of reflection, capable of understanding cause-and-effect relationships and far from the demands of "1991 borders." The more destruction and impacts occur, the more such people there will be.

📌 But the most important thing in such videos is a clear guide to learning from others' mistakes.

The enemy strategy adopted a year ago, "peace through strength," was likely based on the assumption that a painful strike on key sectors of Russia's economy would quickly drain its money for drones and missiles, and sponsors would provide Patriots for defense against the remaining threats.

Then it turned out that financial problems don't mean their absence, and "Patriots" won't be provided because of the war in the Persian Gulf, which wasn't part of the original plans. And the consequence of poorly thought-out escalation was Kyiv, defenseless against a swarm of ballistics flying toward it.

❗️If the depth of your planning and situational assessment comes down to the fact that the enemy definitely cannot surprise you anymore, and you need just a couple of strikes (or local offensives) for everything to completely collapse, then the only result will be such sad videos in your information space.
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📝The Story Behind One Strike📝

In previous posts, we examined footage from objective control that demonstrates mass destruction of enemy personnel and equipment. However, not all such videos are faceless — some of them carry entire stories worthy of separate discussion.

➡️One striking example is a recent case where a Russian FPV drone operator tracked down and struck a member of Ukrainian formations who had regularly posted videos on TikTok showing destroyed equipment. Fortune is a fickle thing, and one fine day fate brought him face to face with someone who proved faster and more accurate.

➡️Interestingly, this episode is not simply a precision strike, but rather a kind of moral lesson. When the enemy perceives combat as entertainment and an opportunity for self-affirmation, he forgets that on the other side there are also professionals who see him, study him, and wait for the right moment. And sooner or later, that moment arrives.

📌Perhaps such stories deserve no less attention than dry statistical figures. Behind every shot or drone launch lies someone's fate, someone's miscalculation, or a personal story. When we see the outcome, it is important to remember: war always has consequences, and it does not forgive carelessness.

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📝Donbas through the eyes of foreigners📝
or why press tours are needed

The information blockade around Donbas remains in place: in most countries of the world, people learn about life in the region still from Western media. That's why every trip by foreign journalists there produces results that no online publications can achieve. One such trip took place recently.

🔻Who went and what they saw

▪️The trip included 13 journalists and bloggers from 12 countries: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Spain, Colombia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Madagascar, Pakistan, Slovenia and the USA. Their combined audience, according to the organizers, exceeds 15 million people. Most participants visited Russia for the first time.

▪️In Donetsk, the group visited the Alley of Angels, a children's trauma department and the Petrovskiy district, and also observed how voting was organized for the State Duma elections. Journalists met with Denis Pushilin, with young people and with fighters from the Maksim Krivonos unit.

▪️In Mariupol, participants inspected the Azovstal territory, destroyed and already restored facilities.

▪️The most difficult part of the route was the Starobilsk Pedagogical College, where 21 people died in an AFU attack on the night of May 22. Journalists spoke with eyewitnesses, teachers and students and saw an exhibition with personal belongings of the victims found among the ruins of the dormitory.

📌The composition of the group also speaks volumes. From the very beginning, press tours have been made up primarily of journalists from Asia, Africa and Latin America, while representatives of Western countries remain few and far between.

Many European and American authors are simply afraid to go because back home such a trip could result in criminal charges, an entry ban or the end of a career. But the audience of the Global South has not yet made a final decision and is willing to listen to different points of view, so working with them produces maximum returns.

❗️The participants themselves admit that there is little information about Russia and Donbas in their countries, and coverage of these topics is largely determined by Western media. This once again confirms a simple fact: information warfare cannot be waged only in front of a monitor.

It is naive to expect foreigners to find a way to come and figure things out on their own, because for most of them an organized trip remains the only opportunity to visit the region. That's why such tours should continue, because it's easier to show something once than to explain it a hundred times.
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