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A new Cato report sheds light on "jawboning," or attempts by state actors "to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech."

The narrative has shifted since September 6, when Ukraine began a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region.

Queues reported at Russian border as Ukrainian citizens accused of collaborating leave areas around Kharkiv

BERLIN — The scenes are jubilant ones: Ukrainian troops raise their blue-and-yellow banners in towns and villages that Russian troops controlled for nearly seven months. Elderly residents emerge from sheds and cellars, nearly bowling over young soldiers with headlong hugs. Abandoned Russian tanks and armored vehicles lie marooned in fields…

“Kill all the generals”, wrote an underground Russian blogger on Telegram, the messaging app, as the collapse of Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine gathered momentum. The information war is as hot as ever.

Ukraine officials make claim Russian volunteers are refusing to serve in combat conditions after their counter-offensive

Ukrainian forces swept deeper into territory seized from fleeing Russian troops on Monday and joyful residents returned to former frontline villages, while Moscow's shells rained down on Kharkiv, setting off fires across the region's main city.

Criticism of Putin is aired on Russian television as Ukraine seizes upper hand in war

Chechen leader and Putin ally dismisses the loss of Izyum, but concedes the campaign is not going to plan.

Ukraine's chief commander, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said on Sunday that the armed forces had regained control of more than 3,000 square km (1,158 square miles) since the start of this month. "There are 50km to go to the state border (with Russia)," he wrote on Telegram

Russian nationalists called angrily on Sunday for President Vladimir Putin to make immediate changes to ensure ultimate victory in the Ukraine war, a day after Moscow was forced to abandon its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine.