The buildings housing Suspilne‘s Odesa branch were damaged in a Russian air strike on 28 March 2026. One of the buildings was hit by a Shahed drone and is beyond repair. There were no casualties; the team continues to work, Suspilne reports.
The broadcaster added that other buildings also sustained damage and had broken windows.
“The windows in absolutely all office rooms are gone and there is damage inside the rooms, including the Suspilne Academy. Fortunately, none of the staff were injured,” said Suspilne Odesa manager Nazariy Maksymchuk.
Olena Holda, chief editor at Suspilne Odesa and Suspilne’s southern hub, said that the team had been instructed on such emergencies. Yet “it is impossible to be actually prepared for such a situation,” she added.
“However, our filming equipment was stored in safe places, so the team continues to work as usual,” she said.
The TV channel’s producer Olena Kvasha told the Institute of Mass Information representative in Odesa oblast that the team was doing clean-up and assessing the damage.
She added that most of the equipment was intact, as the staff stored it in their homes or in safe places.
For now, the team continues to work and does not plan to pause content production. They are working to restore their offices to a functional state.
“We work as a team. The support from our viewers, subscribers, and listeners makes us very happy. We are receiving many offers of help — we are sincerely grateful to everyone,” Kvasha said.
Russian attacks on Suspilne
The Russian mass drone strike on Dnipro city late on 17 November 2025 damaged the building where the office of the regional Suspilne branch was located. IMI’s Mediabaza Dnipro, which was based in the Suspilne building, was also destroyed.
21 Shahed drones targeted the Suspilne Dnipro office during the strike, with 13 hitting the building directly.
In December 2025, Suspilne Dnipro resumed offline work in a new office, which it rented after the Russian strike on their building.
In September 2025, Suspilne Kherson’s senior engineer Vadym Khomenko was injured by a petal-type mine that the Russian troops scattered across the broadcasting company’s territory from drones.
In October 2025, Suspilne Kherson premises were damaged in a Russian artillery strike in Kherson.
The Suspilne Kherson team is now working from a rented basement due to constant Russian shelling and targeting of journalists by Russian drones. The basement is the safest place in the city for the media professionals.