Watch, Kenneth Roth, falsely claimed that Ukrainian lawmakers had passed a motion allowing deserters to be shot. Halya Coynash of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group found western reporting of the 2015 Ukraine bus attack lacking: "The BBC and other western media reports present the Ukrainian side, then the militant denial, leaving out any detail about the labyrinth of different versions from the latter." Casey Michel stated that many Western media "maintained a bulwark against Russian obfuscation" but others were "pushing Russia's fantasies" such as "Russia is the victim!" Yuri M. Zhukov said that "ethnocentric" western and Russian portrayals of the war in Donbas, i.e. focusing on language and ethnicity, were not supported by data on the violence, which showed a stronger connection with local economic factors. 2022 Roskomnadzor investigated several independent Russian media outlets for publishing information about the war or civilian casualties. The regulator threatened to block access in Russia to the Russian Wikipedia, and fine Wikipedia up to four million rubles (US$50,000), for its article on the invasion, which reflects casualties among Ukrainian civilians and Russian military personnel. Pro-Kremlin TV pundits like Vladimir Solovyov and state-controlled media outlets such as Russia-24, Russia-1, and Channel One mostly follow the government narrative on the war. On 28 February, RIA Novosti published, then took down, an incorrect report that Russia had won the Russo-Ukrainian War and "Ukraine has returned to Russia". On 14 March 2022, Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, interrupted a live broadcast to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine, carrying a poster that said in Russian and English: "Stop the war, don't believe the propaganda, here you are being lied to." Independent Russian media in 2022 Russian authorities blocked access to Echo of Moscow and Dozhd (TV Rain), Russia's last independent TV station, claiming that they were spreading false information on the Russian military and calling for violence. Novaya Gazeta, an independent newspaper critical of the Russian government, suspended publication after it received warnings from Roskomnadzor. Media in Ukraine Ukrainian media have stated that the unrest in Ukraine was manufactured by Russia. They have consistently accused Russia of being a provocateur, and of controlling anti-government groups behind the scenes. They saw the annexation of Crimea as illegitimate and illegal. Following the start of the War in Donbas, the Ukrainian government and some media described the armed groups of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's