On 11 April 2022, Vmeste (“Together”), a news website based in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, said that Russian internet regulator and censor Roskomnadzor demanded it remove a number of articles, claiming they contained “untrue information” about Russia’s war in Ukraine. Roskomnadzor sent the letter directly to a German hosting company, asking it to disconnect Vmeste from the web if the media did not comply. The website’s editor Ivan Horin wrote a Facebook post in which he said the accusations were unfounded, claiming Vmeste simply “calls occupiers, murderers and looters occupiers, murderers and looters”.
Russia-Ukraine WarCensorship and regulationPublication ban, take-down order or forced deletion, fine, administrative action