Memorial of Heroes, a Ukrainian memorialization and documentary project that records the stories of those killed by Russia’s war against Ukraine, has had its YouTube channel deleted without the right to appeal.

“Five times this month, our channel has been deleted,” the project’s deputy editor, Kateryna Maiboroda, wrote on Instagram on Nov. 10.

“The formal reason — ‘spam and fraud.’ Without a single example, without any sense.”

According to Maiboroda, after the sixth and most recent deletion, the appeal option —previously followed by quick restoration — was withheld, with no immediate explanation.

The Memorial of Heroes’ channel, part of a larger project that includes a website, social media pages, and an event, hosted 18 documentary films and over 100 profiles in memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers.

Maiboroda said the accusations behind the mass reports, which are unrelated to the channel’s actual content, indicate a coordinated Russian operation.

“They are not only destroying our cities, but our memory, too,” she said in an Instagram story in connection to the deletion.

The mass reporting of Ukrainian channels and social media accounts is only one of many widely documented tactics used by Russian disinformation networks, which often employ hundreds of bot accounts.

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