FREEDOM TV office damaged by Russian strike on Kyiv
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The FREEDOM TV office in Kyiv was damaged by the February 12 Russian shelling strike, but the channel continues to broadcast, as reported on the channel’s website and Telegram channel.
The channel’s reporter Valeria Nekipelova said on the ground that dozens of windows in the TV channel’s office were broken by the shock wave of the Russian strike and that production facilities and cars nearby were damaged.
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The TV channel reported that the air defense had shot down six ballistic missiles, “one of which was targeting a Ukrainian TV broadcasting office.”
Some of the Ukrainian international broadcasting channels were also affected, such as the international branch of UATV English, UATV Español, UATVArabic, UATV Português.
According to the Institute of Mass Information, in the 2 years and 11 months since the start of the full-scale invasion Russia committed 807 crimes against journalists and the media in Ukraine.
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