<story><title>If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine</title><url>https://callrussia.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephwegner</author><text>I would probably advise against doing this. There have been rumors of Russian police looking through citizen&amp;#x27;s phones for indications that they are engaging with western viewpoints on the &amp;quot;special operation&amp;quot;. And the penalty for such activities is quite high right now.&lt;p&gt;A random phone call from a U.S. citizen might look suspicious, and I don&amp;#x27;t imagine Russian police are giving much benefit of the doubt right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CogitoCogito</author><text>I also kind of wonder how effective it would be. Put yourself in their shoes. What if you received a random phone call from someone claiming that all the media coverage of the war in Ukraine is actually fake and that there is no war at all and it’s all a peace keeping in response to Ukrainian atrocities. Would you believe it? Given what I’ve seen in the news, I’d just write the person off as crazy personally. I’d expect a Russian’s reaction to be similar.</text></comment>
<story><title>If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine</title><url>https://callrussia.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephwegner</author><text>I would probably advise against doing this. There have been rumors of Russian police looking through citizen&amp;#x27;s phones for indications that they are engaging with western viewpoints on the &amp;quot;special operation&amp;quot;. And the penalty for such activities is quite high right now.&lt;p&gt;A random phone call from a U.S. citizen might look suspicious, and I don&amp;#x27;t imagine Russian police are giving much benefit of the doubt right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>This is an awfully dangerous game, but if Russians started getting phone calls from Americans en mass, could that actually provide cover for everyone?</text></comment>