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Seeing it, we had a talk earlier today about the downside of social media. obviously, the challenges, not only in our own culture, but in other cultures, how authoritarians have used it. but here is yet another example of how getting on social media can actually speak truth to power, can help undermine disinformation from russians. and let's just -- let's just hope that that truth keeps coming through. because, i think ukrainians, we must say that ukrainians have done an amazing job using social media to get the truth out. >> they have, and it's brave civilians like maria and other ukrainians ...

Their hands tied down behind their -- behind their eyes tied, and they were killed and shot in the head. horrifying images and also, that's only what they do in the city that are occupied by -- but, for example, in kharkiv, which is shelled every day, russian troops are using cluster munition bombs on residential areas, which are very dangerous, because they have a very big impact on people. and every day, we have new reports about more and more casualties among civilians, that are hit by russian troops. >> maria dava, thank you. maria is an expert in combatting russian disinformation and we t...

Ukraine. and they call it special military operation. and it's not allowed to call it a war. and that's why they say that they need to denouncefy ukrainians and demilitarize ukraine, and that's why they waged this new phase of aggression in donbas. >> and you're right, maria. that is the orwellian narrative being pitched back home in russia, that somehow ukraine is the aggressor in this war. that the people we've all seen dead in bucha with our own eyes were somehow actors. that those crimes were perpetrated by ukrainian military. we know that's not true. but i'm curious as you've gone out int...

>> the woman who posted the video is a resident of kharkiv and an expert in russian disinformation. when the war broke out, she stayed behind so she could document what is going on, on the ground. that woman, maria abdava joins us now live from da knee perot in ukraine. thank you so much for being with us this morning. first, i want to hear all that you've seen the last few months, but i want you to tell us first about your area of expertise and your decision to stay behind in a city that is under attack. >> i have been searching russian disinformation since 2014, when russia started this war....