Volunteers around the world are reaching out to Russian citizens in unusual ways, trying to break through the Kremlin's censorship over the war in Ukraine.
During the Cold War, the U.S. used to crack the Kremlin's wall of censorship with radio programs and anti-communist leaflets carried in balloons.
Today's grassroots efforts are more advanced. A website "Call Russia" randomly generates 40 million numbers inside Russia, so volunteers can make calls. "Most ... people don't want to learn the truth. But people still are humans. You know, no one is OK with massive amounts of people dying," co-creator of Call Russia, Paulius Senuta, said.
Senuta and other campaigners says they'll keep reaching out to Russians to share the realities of the war in the hope that eventually, they will help end it.
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