How to counteract Russian propaganda in the occupied territories
During the temporary occupation, 14 regional and 53 local television companies, 18 regional and 47 local radio stations, as well as 46 providers stopped broadcasting. According to Maxim Onoprienko, a member of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting, 15% of all broadcasters in the country are not functioning. It is important not to lose sight of the seemingly modest figure. For most of the occupied territories, Ukrainian TV and radio channels are available only on the Internet, if they are not blocked there or if users know how to bypass the occupying blocks. Oleksandr Klyuzhev, analyst of the Opora Public Network, writes about this in an article.
According to him, the state is still resisting the information policy of the aggressor in the captured territories by trying to muffle the aggressor's signal and strengthen its own equipment, betting on satellite television, the Internet -national mass media channels and the Diya application.
“It is important to avoid repeating the experience of slow resolution of the problem in the front-line territories in 2014-2022, as a result of which many Ukrainian citizens consumed Russian poison on a daily basis. Where this consumption ends, we all already know very well… Helping journalists from TOT to move to free territories and supporting their new initiatives, programs to compensate media for financial losses, restoring the infrastructure of television and radio broadcasting, countering Russian propaganda and investigating crimes of the Russian Federation against the media are included in the package of urgent tasks,” the author notes.
