The MiG took off, the bus pulled to a stop, and the driver switched off the engine. The people in the cabin were quiet, hoping the driver would ignore it and it would come through. But the driver came out of his cab and said in irritation, “Alright, looks like the air raid alert is on, here we are. Time to hop out.” Kyiv remains one of only three Ukrainian regional centers where public transport stops during air raids. No such ban exists even in Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia, where shelling occurs more frequently than in the capital.Читати українськоюText by Valeriia Pavlenko. Data Analysis by Vlad Herasymenko. Design by Nadia Kelm.

Russian disinformers continue to cover every third item of news about the war in Ukraine and its consequences for Russia. And we continue to analyze the news of Russian websites and review what the enemy is telling its own population about the attack against Ukraine. To do this, we analyzed more than 33 thousand pieces of news from the Russian state media and manipulative websites that are targeted to spread Russian disinformation.

Russian disinformers continue to dedicate one in every three news items to the war and its consequences for Russia. So we continue to analyze news on Russian websites and to look at what the enemy is telling its own population about the attack on Ukraine.

Warfare expert Mykola Bielieskov explores Ukraine’s military strategy, which has allowed the country to successfully fight off Russia for the second week in a row, despite being written off by western experts as doomed by default, and finds it is similar to Finland’s Winter War.

On February 24 I woke up in the night suddenly. I felt some strange pressure in my heart. I never felt like that in my life. It was a peaceful and quiet night in London, only some fox barked in the distance. I checked the time on my phone. Five in the morning. Instinctively I opened Facebook and saw awful news. “Russia launches rockets on Ukraine”. The whole country was on fire. I've read it many times but couldn't grasp any sense of it.Antonina Maliei, London

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 spurred calls for an internationally-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine.Martin Fornusek

About 57.5% of adult Ukrainians of both sexes are ready to join various forms of resistance in the event of a large-scale military offensive by Russia, including armed resistance.