Ukraine and the information war

It's an old cliché that the first casualty of war is the truth.

In Ukraine, today's violence doesn't mean there's a full scale shooting war.

Yet the truth has already become a victim.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe says the crisis shows how propaganda and the deterioration of media freedom often fuel a conflict and can contribute to its escalation.

Its Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, has called on countries to stop manipulating the media and cease - what she calls - information and psychological wars.

She's not the first person to say some media outlets are manipulating or distorting what's going on.

For example, the Moscow-funded TV channel RT has been accused of that... by two of its own presenters on air.

We've been talking to Stephen Ennis, a Russian media analyst at BBC Monitoring. We asked him about the Russian media landscape.

But how are things seen from Russia?

Dmity Linnk is the London bureau chief of Voice of Russia, a Moscow-funded radio station.

I asked him whether he thinks there is an information war underway.