Russian forces in temporarily occupied Berdyansk are forcing local journalists to broadcast Russian propaganda at gunpoint.
This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhzhia OSA Alexander Starukh in a video comment posted on the oblast administration’s YouTube channel, according to LB.ua.
“They wrote down their addresses, their relatives’ addresses, and forced them to broadcast all sorts of garbage. They bring, for example, humanitarian aid. It must be distributed – no one came. There are two buses are ‘grannies on duty.’ They come out, receive it, say how good it feels to live in Russia, and they film this as usual and show it on their television. This happened in Melitopol, in particular,” said Starukh.
As IMI reported, on March 8, the Russian troops took over the radio station Azovska Khvylia in Berdyansk.
Also on March 8, the Russian military took over the building of the local media holding PRO100 in Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.