A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

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Ilya Ponomarev was the only member of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, to vote against Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Today the 48-year-old former parliamentarian from the Siberian town of Novosibirsk is running an online television channel out of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to counter Russian propaganda.

Ponomarev's goal is nothing less than to foment an uprising against Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia.

NPR meets Ponomarev in his studio, where a team of Ukrainian and Russian journalists, technicians and TV anchors are hard at work.

The channel, called February Morning (a reference to when the invasion began), also runs dozens of Telegram channels - the news messaging app where most Russians get their information about the war.

Ponomarev believes the war in Ukraine can only end with the total military defeat of Russia.