Konkurent Ukraina TV briefly halted T2 broadcasting to Russian attacks on infrastructure in Kyiv on 26 September, the channel’s director Oleksandra Kurtieieva reported in a Facebook post.
She said that Russian strikes on data centres and telecom infrastructure led to the channel fully stopping their broadcasting on 26 September.
In the meantime, the channel’s streams were available on Konkurent Ukraina‘s official YouTube channel.
Oleksandra Kurtieieva later confirmed that the signal had been restored and the channel was back on air on T2.
Konkurent Ukraina TV began broadcasting on the nationwide digital T platform on 25 May 2025. The channel is based in Lutsk alongside the regional channel Konkurent Volyn.
According to YouControl, the LLC Content Management Group is run by Oleksandra Kurtieieva and was founded by Taras Shkiter, who also founded the project behind the news agency Konkurent and is the deputy chair of Volyn Oblast Administration.
As reported by Volyn Oblast Administration, he was a co-founder of the SVIDOMI Civil Society Movement and headed it in 2018 – 2024.
Ukrainian news organisations experience issues following Russia’s 26 September strike
The Institute of Mass Information has previously reported issues experienced by other Ukrainian news organisations due to Russian strikes on infrastructure. On 26 September 2026, Armiya TV temporarily went off air due to technical problems caused by Russian shelling. Novyny.LIVE had to halt broadcasting due to connectivity disruptions following a Russian attack on Kyiv’s infrastructure. The Priamyi website was offline as well due to a Russian strike on a data centre. Suspilne website was experiencing video playvack issues due to a Russian strike on the Cosmonova data centre in Kyiv.
Kyiv 24 has reported that Kyiv city may experience disruptions to cable and online television due to Russia’s large-scale attacks on telecom infrastructure and data centres.
Channel 5 remains live on YouTube but is experiencing problems with TV signal retransmission.
The Poltava-based news website Kolo has been offline since 26 September due to the Russian attack on Kyiv.