From a Wall Street Journal story by Sam Schechner and Stacy Meichtry headlined “How Zelensky and Putin Are Using Online Media in the War for Ukraine”:

In Europe’s first full-scale ground war in a generation, the two sides are trying to marshal modern media to their advantage—and the world is responding.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in invading neighboring Ukraine, has wielded the Kremlin’s vast communications apparatus and an army of online trolls to portray the Russian military as a peacekeeping force deployed to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians.