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How Are Iran And Russia Covering Ukraine?

How are Iranian and Russian television news channels covering Ukraine?

Looking at Russia's RT (Russia Today) channel back to July 2010 (NOTE the Archive has an outage in its coverage from early 2014 to mid-2017), mentions unsurprisingly surge in the leadup to the invasion and have remained fairly stable ever since, with several periods of sharp drops:

Our Iranian coverage only goes back to October 2022 and shows that Press TV was unsurprisingly focusing heavily on Ukraine, with elevated, but far less, coverage on IRINN, but the October 7th attacks pivoted Iranian media away from Ukraine.