'Enemy must suffer': Ukraine seeks ban of Netflix, Instagram, Facebook & other social media platforms in Russia

Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote letters to owners of various social media and OTT media platforms seeking a ban of their services in Moscow.

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26 Feb 2022, 9:51 am

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As the Russia-Ukraine conflict entered into the third day on Saturday, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote letters to owners of various social media and OTT media platforms seeking a ban of their services in Moscow. As per a letter shared by Ukraine World, Mykhailo Fedorov wrote letter to OTT platforms and social media including Netflix, Facebook, Instagram to ban their services in Russia for their 'deceptive and outrageous military attack' on Ukraine.

Not only this but Ukraine's Digital Transformation Minister also wrote a letter to YouTube seeking a ban on Russia's state-owned channels spreading their propaganda online. In his letter, Ukraine's Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov writes, "The Russian Federation has carried out a deceptive and absolutely outrageous military attack on my country. Just imagine in 2022 cruise missile attack residential neighbourhoods, kindergartens and hospitals at the heart of Europe."

"The armed forced and citizens are defending Ukraine till the end. The whole world is repelling the aggressor through the impositions of sanctions-the enemy must suffer significant losses. But we need your support, in 2022 modern, technology is perhaps the best answers to the tanks , multiple rocket launchers and missiles," wrote Mykhailo Fedorov.

Read Ukraine's full letter to Netflix, Instagram, Facebook and other platforms here:

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Russia-Ukraine conflict

Coming to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Moscow amassed over 150,000 troops on Ukraine's borders in a bid to pressurise Western nations to not allow Kyiv to join NATO, threatening an invasion. On Thursday, Putin ordered a special military operation in Ukraine's Donbas region, which quickly turned into precision airstrikes on Kyiv, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, deployed tanks towards Lviv from the Belarus-Ukraine border. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 137 died after first day of fighting.

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