In Moscow, Russian authorities on Thursday ordered two TV and radio broadcasters off the air over their coverage of the invasion of Ukraine. Echo of Moscow was one of Russia’s oldest radio stations. Meanwhile, workers at the independent station TV Rain held an on-air protest to conclude its final broadcast Thursday. A news anchor’s last words were “No to war” before staffers walked off the set. They then fled their workplace after learning that special forces were preparing to storm the building. This is TV Rain’s general director, Natalya Sindeeva.

Natalya Sindeeva: “We can’t compare war, catastrophe and terrible tragedy where people are dying every day — which is happening now — to our situation, but we are also at war, because we are working in conditions of war. We have too many restrictions, and for every mistake, we pay not with our lives but with our jobs.”

Meanwhile, the Russian state-funded news outlet RT America has suspended its productions and laid off most of its staff. This comes after RT America was dropped by major U.S. distributors, including DirecTV, and after YouTube, TikTok and Facebook also blocked access to Russian state-funded outlets to its users in Europe.