“It might be rougher or softer, but one way or another, all the television channels convey the same point of view,” said Ilya Shepelin, a journalist who analyzed Russian state propaganda for a show on Russia’s now-shuttered independent channel TV Rain. “It is very difficult for a person to break out of that, because if he is surrounded by a unified information wall, it’s difficult to even believe that in Kyiv they could possibly be bombing civilian homes — that everything may not be so simple.”