On April 20, the American Fox News channel, during a live broadcast of the Easter service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which took place in Kyiv, labeled the Ukrainian capital as a Russian city.
The channel broadcasted the broadcast on its YouTube channel.
The broadcast of the Orthodox Church of Ukraineʼs service from St. Michaelʼs Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv was conducted in parallel with the broadcast of the service in Moscow, in which Putin and Patriarch Kirill participated.
Initially, the broadcast from Ukraine was subtitled “Easter Service: Kyiv, Ukraine”, but after a brief pause, the caption “Easter Service: Kyiv, Russia” appeared under the video. The error was later corrected.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry responded to the designation of Kyiv as a Russian city on Fox News.
"If this was a mistake, and not a deliberate political statement, an apology should be made and an investigation should be conducted into who made the mistake," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi.
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