The Moscow court ordered the US tech behemoth to pay a total
of $135,000 for ignoring the state media regulator's orders to remove posts
alleging heavy Russian losses in Ukraine.
One of the videos showed an alleged phone conversation
between Russian soldiers and their relatives back home in which the troops
complained of numerous casualties in their ranks, Russian state news agencies
reported.
Another alleged that soldiers who were trying to move back
from Ukrainian counter-offensives were being shot by retreat-blocking Russian
detachments, the state media reports said.
Google's ubiquitous video hosting service has been in
Russia's crosshairs throughout its nearly two-month campaign in Ukraine.
The tech giant infuriated Russian officials by blocking the
lower house of parliament's official media channel earlier this month.
Russia has moved swiftly to cut access to non-state media
and information resources since the launch of its operation in February 24.
Russian courts have banned Facebook and Instagram, calling
them "extremist" organisations, as well as Twitter.
All three are still accessible through VPN services, which
try to disguise user locations.
But most Russians get their news from state television and
other government-controlled media outlets, which follow strict rules on
covering the military campaign.
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