The Capitol Building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, May 12.Members of the US House of Representatives are asking Tik-Tok, Twitter, Meta* (Meta* (Facebook* and Instagram* social networks) are banned in Russia as extremist) and YouTube to archive content related to Russia's actions in Ukraine, NBC reports. .According to a letter signed by four members of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party, which came into the possession of the publication, congressmen want to preserve the information available on social networks and video platforms that «can be used as evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine.» The messages were sent to company executives and contain a request to «flag content that could potentially contain evidence of war crimes and other atrocities» in Ukraine. The publication notes that although the request is not legally binding and does not oblige companies to comply with the request of congressmen, there are precedents that such appeals of the congress are carried out. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist the chains are broken.» What Ukrainian artillerymen did in Donbass
