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I am aware of that. The thing with Kyiv Independent in particular (this is the most frequently posted "Ukrainian news") is that the Ukrainian government is not directly in control of what they write, unlike with RT. The problem with RT is that they publish fake news regularly while Kyiv Independent mostly just chooses to publish the news that show Ukraine in a good light but their articles stay factually correct. Examples of failed RT fact checks regarding the current conflict:
To be clear, I do not support publishing the news from news agencies based in any of the countries involved in the conflicts (not just this one, same goes for Al Jazeera reporting on conflicts in the Arab world), but there is a difference between RT and the other media outlets. Both aren't reliable but RT is just at another level when it comes to "unreliable"