In recent days, with the Russian government restricting access to social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, it has become difficult for the Russian people to keep up with what is going on in Ukraine. A group of Polish programmers created a website called Squad303 to solve this problem. This site allows people from all over the world to communicate with users in Russia.
The website works by bringing up a set of email addresses or phone numbers that you can contact. The database contains 20 million mobile phone numbers and approximately 140 million email addresses. Squad303 entered service on 6 March. The site’s owners say that since then, around 7 million SMS and 2 million emails and countless war images and videos have been sent. “Our goal is to break Putin’s digital censorship wall and ensure that the Russian people are not completely detached from the world and the reality of what Russia is doing in Ukraine,” they said in a statement.