Russia has now confirmed that it will restrict access to Instagram.
It comes after the social media site's parent company, Meta, changed its rules in some countries to allow the expression of violent sentiment towards Russian forces, but not towards Russian civilians.
Russia's media regulator says Instagram is distributing material calling for violent acts to be carried out against Russian citizens.
It isn't clear yet whether Instagram will be completely blocked or limited in some other way.
Access to Facebook, also owned by Meta, and Twitter has already been restricted.
In the meantime Ukrainian president Zelensky says Ukraine has reached a turning point and is "on the way to victory".
Speaking in a televised address earlier, he says: "It’s not possible to say how many days it will take to liberate our Ukrainian land.
"But it is possible to say that we will do that because we have achieved already the turning point strategically – we are on the way to our victory."
This is a "patriotic war" against a "strong and obstinate enemy which doesn’t pay attention to thousands of their own soldiers dead", he says.
Referencing reports of Russia utilising mercenaries in their invasion, he says: "Artillery, bombs, missiles – now there’s Syrian mercenaries who do not differentiate who speaks which language here... those mercenaries are just simply built to kill, in a land alien to them."
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