Russia just passed a new law making it punishable by 15 years in prison to give “fake” information about the Russian armed forces
Since as a practical matter what the Putin regime decides is “fake” will be considered fake under the law it becomes dangerous for anyone discussing the war to do anything but parrot what the Putin government says about what is happening or has happened regarding the war in Ukraine
“Russia just passed a new law making it punishable by 15 years in prison to give “fake” information about the Russian armed forces”
Read up on WW2. The editors of newspapers were threatened with TREASON if they tried getting cute, like leaking the landing location/timing of D-Day (and back then, they knew they would be punished for it).