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Monday, March 14, 2022

In today’s newsletter

• Stories from Ukraine: debunking conspiracy theories about Mariupol’s bombed hospital, the problem with Russian TV, life under siege in Mariupol, and how the invasion wiped a town off the map in the Donbass
• The situation in Russia: television history is made, and why some Russians are staying

Stories from Ukraine

Recent developments

• A deadly explosion in Donetsk: A rocket exploded in central Donetsk killing 20 people and injuring another 28, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry, which identified the weapon as an OTR-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missile, allegedly fired from territory under the Ukrainian state’s control. Officials in Kyiv, however, say, “This was definitely a Russian missile or some other ammunition.”
• Trouble leaving Mariupol: Roughly 150 vehicles carrying civilians departed Mariupol on Monday. BBC Russia reported that this was the first time since the city’s encirclement that residents managed to use “humanitarian corridors” to escape. Mariupol’s mayor later reported, however, that the evacuees got no farther than the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk (about 50 miles southwest).
• Going after the oil, sorta: The European Union approved a fourth package of “restrictive measures” against Russia in response to Moscow’s attacks against schools, apartment buildings, and hospitals in Ukraine. Reuters reported that EU states will also adopt new sanctions against the oil majors Rosneft, Transneft, and Gazprom Neft, but European purchases of Russian oil will continue.

False allegations about the maternity hospital airstrike in Mariupol, debunked (9-min read)

On March 9, the Ukrainian authorities reported that Russian forces had bombed the maternity wing of Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol. Later, Kyiv stated that the airstrike killed three people (including a child) and injured 17 others. Photos of the aftermath captured by Evgeniy Maloletka — a Ukrainian photographer working in the besieged city — shocked audiences around the world when they appeared in the international press. The next day, however, an anonymous Telegram channel published claims that the images were “staged,” alleging that the maternity hospital was actually “controlled by nationalists” from the far-right Azov Battalion. Pro-Kremlin media outlets then proceeded to spread these allegations far and wide. Ilya Ber — the publisher and editor-in-chief of Provereno Media, which specializes in debunking fake news — analyzes these attempts to cast doubt on what happened in Mariupol.

Many Ukrainians now share a common experience: their relatives in Russia refuse to believe their accounts of the war.(19-min read)

The millions of families separated by the Russia-Ukraine border now find themselves on opposite sides of a war. And in recent weeks, many on the Ukrainian side have learned the hard way that their relatives in Russia would rather believe the Kremlin’s story than their family’s first-hand accounts. Meduza spoke with Ukrainians who have had trouble convincing their Russian relatives of even the most basic facts about the war in Ukraine.

A Ukrainian journalist describes life under Russian siege in Mariupol (6-min read)

For over two weeks, Mariupol has been under siege: water, food, medicine, electricity, and means of communicating with the outside world are all scarce. Meanwhile, Russian bombs continue to fall. Ukrainian officials reported on Monday that over 2,500 people had died. Meduza spoke to Ukrainian journalist Artem Popov, who managed to escape from Mariupol last week, about life under siege.

Invading forces in Ukraine spent weeks conquering Volnovakha, inflicting damage so severe that the town no longer exists

A destroyed church in Volnovakha.

Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

The town of Volnovakha lies 60 kilometers (almost 40 miles) outside Donetsk. Or rather it used to. On March 11, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that soldiers from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic had “liberated” the town. Ukrainian officials phrased this a bit differently, saying that Volnovakha no longer exists. Before Moscow’s full-scale invasion, more than 20,000 people lived here. Look at it now.

Russia’s domestic situation

Recent developments

• Another high-profile official speaks out: Arkady Dvorkovich, the president of the World Chess Federation and a former Russian deputy prime minister, publicly criticized the invasion of Ukraine, calling the war “the worst thing you can face in life” and saying that he keeps Ukraine’s civilians in his thoughts.
• Disloyal businesses: Lawmakers from the nation’s ruling political party have proposed legislation that would make it a felony to enforce Western sanctions inside Russia. The law would penalize Russian companies that refuse to work with sanctioned banks and other businesses under the pretext that they would risk becoming sanctioned themselves. “Obeying foreign sanctions within [Russia] constitutes indirect support [of the sanctions]. There’s no other word for this but betrayal,” said Andrey Turchak, a senior member of United Russia.
• The politics of live music: Police departments in Russia have issued instructions to concert promoters and venue hosts not to invite certain Ukrainian musicians or artists with known anti-war views, according to the investigative news outlet Agentstvo. Other musicians have reportedly been pressured to sign contracts promising not to discuss Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine while on stage. Separately, economic sanctions and corporate withdrawals have created copyright issues with new releases from Western artists that will make most of this music unavailable to Russia’s two streaming giants, Yandex Music and VK Music.
• Good times for VK: Following Russia’s decision to block Meta services like Facebook and Instagram, the Russian social network Vkontakte reported its highest ever daily traffic, with a record 50 million users visiting the website in a single day. Headquartered in Russia, Vkontakte operates in compliance with Russian Internet controls and has already blocked the pages of several independent news outlets, including Meduza’s page. On Monday, Russia’s federal censor blocked the popular news and memes website TJournal.

Russian state TV editor interrupts live news broadcast with anti-war message

Channel One screenshot

During an evening news broadcast on March 14, Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova ran on stage with an anti-war banner that read, “No War. Stop the war! Don’t believe the propaganda! They’re lying to you here! Russians against war.” During the few seconds before the broadcast cut away, Ovsyannikova repeated the words, “No to war! Stop the war!” She was promptly arrested. The authorities say she will face misdemeanor charges for violating Russia’s new ban on “disinformation” about the invasion of Ukraine.

Meduza’s Russian readers explain why they’re not leaving the country (7-min read)

Over the last few weeks, thousands of people have fled Russia, hoping to avoid the domestic political, social, and economic consequences of war. But those people are in the minority — not everyone can leave home and move to a new country with such little notice, no matter how much they might want to. Some people have remained in Russia for family reasons, others can’t afford to leave, while others have made conscious decisions not to leave on principle. We asked our readers to tell us why they decided to stay in Russia (or why they didn’t have a choice), and we’re publishing their answers below.

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