This week the Ukrainian armed forces did what was long anticipated.

The Ukrainian counteroffensive is now underway.

Four villages already taken back from Russian control in the south.

There's heavy fighting right now in the area around Kyrsten, a crucial port city near the Black Sea.

This strike hit a key bridge in Kyrsten city, which is under Russian control.

We've tried to recapture this, the only regional capital that has been captured in the six months of war

and that remains in Russian hands.

Analysts call the battle for Kyrsten a game of bridges.

It's all documented on the homepage of Ukraine's Capravda, an independent news outlet in Ukraine.

There you learn that Ukraine's forces have taken control of two of those bridges,

Kakhovka and Antonivka.

The site also keeps a running tally of the quote, total approximate losses of the enemy.

On the day we recorded this podcast, day 189 of the war, Russian losses include 234 aircraft

over 1900 tanks, 15 ships and boats.

It's this kind of reporting by Ukrainians for both local and international audiences

that Andrei Boborikin says sets Ukraine's local media apart.

He's the executive director of Ukraine's Capravda,

one of Ukraine's biggest international outlets.

He's also a member of the Media Development Foundation, an organization helping Ukrainian media survive the war.

Meanwhile, he says Russian state news continues to be viewed by millions around the world,

supported to some degree by the social media platforms and the tech companies that we've come to know.

When the war started in Ukraine, Facebook and Google were quick to say that,

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