Both nations have understood the need to take to social media — but have done so in markedly different ways.
Cars drive past a building with a huge letter Z, a symbol of the Russian military, and a hashtag reading ‘we don’t abandon our own’ in Moscow on March 30, 2022.
(AP Photo)
The transmission of truth about the war against Ukraine is a criminal offense in Russia. Without access to the complete information about the war, Russian population continues to support it.
There is little evidence that Russia has coordinated cyber operations with conventional military operations in Ukraine.
Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
Estimates of casualties from the war in Ukraine have varied widely. Some of this is due to genuine difficulty counting the dead, but there are also strategic reasons to put out misleading death tolls.
International Committee of the Red Cross workers prepare bags with bodies of government soldiers to be handed over in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov
A fractured opposition helped deliver a parliamentary super majority to Europe’s longest serving leader despite position on Ukraine.
Two Ukrainian soldiers patrol a street as elderly women walk past a house damaged by artillery shelling in Novoluhanske in eastern Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022.
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A new form of conflict resource is real estate — the farms, houses, apartment buildings, villages, towns and cities of any country. Real estate trafficking has a big impact on civilian populations.
Canadian parliamentarians and guests give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a standing ovation as he.
addresses Parliament on March 15, 2022 in Ottawa.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Canada is arming and supporting Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion. At various points in its history, it’s been everything from an invader to an arms supplier to invaders, not defenders.
A U.S. Air Force jet performs a test drop of a B61-12 bomb in December 2021. That bomb can contain a nuclear warhead for use in wartime.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Both the Russian and US arsenals boast thousands of nuclear weapons, located in various places around their own countries and, for the US, in Europe as well.
Russian soldiers celebrating the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow in June 2020.
EPA-EFE/Dumitru Doru
Refugees must be given the chance to work and make a full life for themselves in host countries.
U.S. universities are cutting ties with their Russian counterparts, such as Moscow State University, shown here.
Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images
Decades of collaboration between Western and Russian universities have come to a halt because of the war in Ukraine. An expert on U.S.-Russia relations explains what’s at stake.
Indonesia received the G20 presidency from Italy.
Laily Rache/Antara Foto
What would allow Vladimir Putin to save face in Ukraine in terms of negotiating a ceasefire? Ukraine would likely have to cede its NATO aspirations as well as territory in the east.
A woman with hair dyed bright red wears a mask as she uses her phone in Beijing.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
In China, social media is being censored to reflect pro-Russian sentiment, making it impossible to gauge public opinion of Chinese people on the Russian invasion.
EPA-EFE/Ukranian presidential press service handout
If talks succeed in ending the violence, it would cement Turkey’s role as a key regional power broker.
A few visitors and staff at a Moscow bar watch the broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing Russian citizens on a state television channel in March 2020.
(Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)