Despite death threats, movement restrictions and moral pressure, journalists in the occupied territories refuse to cooperate with the aggressor. Alexander Klyuzhev, an analyst at the Opora Civic Network, writes about this in the article " The occupiers are counting on the demoralization and fear of journalists, primarily local and close to the front, which will lead to self-censorship. They also expect a collaboration of media workers with the occupation administrations in the territories over which Ukraine has temporarily lost control..

At the moment, the hopes of the occupier have not been justified. Representative of the Institute of Mass Communication Valentina Troyan states that there are no facts of cooperation between individual Ukrainian journalists or the media in general with the occupiers in the newly captured territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. “I checked this information with the Security Service of Ukraine in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, whether they recorded the facts of cooperation between the media or individual journalists after February 24. Not. There have been no such cases so far,” says Valentina Troyan and notes that journalists in territories that are still under the threat of occupation should feel that they will not be left alone with the Russian army and the FSB. Timely telling professional journalists in the occupied territories that they have a way out is also part of an effective strategy to counter Russia.