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Ilya Ponomarev is the founder of February Morning, an opposition Russian-language online newscast aimed at viewers in Russia. Behind him is a flag symbolizing the "free Russia of the future," created following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ponomarev calls it the "Russian tricolor without the blood." Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption

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A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

February Morning, an online TV channel broadcast in Russian, offers its audience a different take on the war in Ukraine. Its founder says his goal is nothing less than the end of the Putin regime.

Ilya Ponomarev is the founder of February Morning, an opposition Russian-language online newscast aimed at viewers in Russia. Behind him is a flag symbolizing the "free Russia of the future," created following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ponomarev calls it the "Russian tricolor without the blood." Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption

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Eleanor Beardsley/NPR

A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

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