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Precision, that's a lot different from what we're hearing from ukraine as matt bradley just reported. >> that's right, we're hearing basically counterclaims to everything we've been hearing from the ukrainian defense minister and it's interesting because they're very much trying to capture a certain area here of this operation, remember this began with a very early morning declaration, of a special military operation, especially a kind of liberation of ukraine but don't call it war, you're not hearing that anywhere in the russian media, they're being very selective how they're presenting this,...

As he launched into part of a long haranguing of this crowd, there was, according to moscow, a technical glitch, whether russian president was suddenly cut off on all the existing land to broadcast russian state channels, so very highly managed. and of course we know there are lots of hackers and we know the russians are very good at disinformation and aren't the only ones, let's be clear, but from this point of view, it is not going well. and you can't help but look at president putin in casual very studied attire addressing the attire dashed the cloud —— the crowd, and he must be compari...

It's putin's war and not the russian people's war. >> reporter: speaking to george stephanopoulos on "this week" about her one-woman protest during a russian state tv broadcast. her sign reading, "stop the war. don't believe the propaganda. they're lying to you." in russia, the very words "war" and "invasion" are now banned from russian reporting of the crisis in ukraine, as are images like these of russia's brutal bombardment of ukrainian cities that the rest of the world sees. ovsyannikova personally challenging that censorship in her own country. >> translator: because the propaganda on our...

In russia, there's something like 37—38 million regular users _ russians use it to message each other and make phone calls, but also as a source of news. and there are some really large independent channels, as well as state channels — channels with millions of followers who are putting out any narratives they like. and so we're seeing a disinformation, misinformation war play out in that space that is really beyond the government's control. thank you very much indeed. olga, i could see you wanting to come in here — how important do you believe telegram and other newer platforms are, in ...

A lot with reference to russian media. some listeners won't have encountered it. could you just explain what it is as a service, and why we need to consider it when we look at the construction of russia's narrative? so, telegram is a somewhat encrypted — although that's debatable — messaging service, something like whatsapp or signal, which are more widely used in western europe. it's extremely popular in russia, there's something like 37—38 million regular users. russians use it to message each other and make phone calls, but also as a source of news. and there are some really large ind...