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what is known

From now on, if you visit the Pixabay website from Russia, the user will see a message condemning the war against Ukraine: “We strongly condemn Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine” [досі] continues. In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pixabay is no longer available in Russia. To read accurate information about what is happening in Ukraine, visit the UN page.

Message On The Site Pixabay / Channel 24 Screenshot

OK. No more photos because the Russians turned a blind eye to photos of destroyed Ukrainian cities and maimed civilians. We continue to work on the total digital isolation of Russia,
– Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov commented on the telegram channel.

questions to the UN

It is worth noting that the UN page to which the resource is directed is not a very good choice for information:

• The link is the English version of the part about the war in Ukraine, which the vast majority of citizens of a terrorist country do not understand.
• The page mostly includes: information is not about the war itself, and the powers of the United Nations, the right of veto, various legal issues, the country’s membership in the organization and the commemoration of the Secretary-General. To access the war news directly, you need to go to another section by clicking a special button.
• But even there, as the Russians say, “not everything is so clear”. Publications made by the UN on its website They do not answer the question of who attacked Ukraine in any way., as if leaving the occupants’ room for their own fantasies. in texts Avoid making direct statements about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. When it comes to the investigation of rights violations in Ukraine, there is no mention of Russia violating these rights. When it comes to the deaths of children, the organization carefully avoids the word “Russia” – the article on this topic never mentions who killed these children. The situation is similar in the article “Thousands of civilians under fire in Severodonetsk and other Ukrainian cities”: Russia is not mentioned as the party responsible for the bombing. There are many such examples.
• Thus, the so-called “ordinary” Russians, who are likely to visit UN resources, will be able to see only what they want – that is, to complete the lines of Russian propaganda and once again establish guilt for Ukraine. This will make them repeat that it was Ukraine that violated human rights, killed children and bombed their own city, because nowhere in the UN publications says otherwise.

what now

Unfortunately, racists still have few alternatives. Among them, for example, the Unsplash site, which offers a huge library of free photos, or the Freepik site, where you can also find vectors, icons, fonts and psd files.