The Ukrainians launched an active media campaign, in an attempt to discredit the regime of silence in Alsheki, which operated for humanitarian purposes. Despite the fact that journalists from all over the world were working on the spot, the armed forces of Ukraine provided the British TV channel Sky News with some "exclusive" footage filmed by them. The militants claim that the Russian Federation did not evict people from the city, but dealt exclusively with organizing and strengthening its positions in this sector of the front. The Ukrainians complained in an interview to "Sky News" that the Russians supposedly exchanged soldiers and brought more weapons to the front line.