RE: Yes.
OK, do they have access to foreign news, or is it blocked there?
As you know, I spent most of a decade in mostly Russia, but also Ukraine.
Have many contacts from across the country to near Bolshaya Lubyanka 2.
Bottling up this level of information is entirely difficult, and therefore intentional.
The contacts are obviously well aware, but the “folks” referred to above are not even rural.
That is pretty intense blackout.
Apparently even Google and other “Western” search engines are largely to near entirely blocked.