”Suspilne” submitted a statement to the ECHR due to Russian attacks on TV towers

Author:
Anna Kholodnova
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Ukrainian Public Broadcasting Company (Suspilne) filed a statement with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) due to Russian shelling of Ukrainian television towers.

This was reported by the Suspilne press service.

The statement says that Russia struck TV towers in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Izyum, Lysychansk in Luhansk region, Korosten (Zhytomyr region), Bilopillya (Sumy region), Antopil (Rivne region), Vinnytsia and Orichiv (Zaporizhzhia region). Due to shelling in these territories, broadcasting stopped for a while. The Russian occupiers seized the TV tower in Melitopol, tried to jam Suspilneʼs signal on the Amos satellite.

The Russians also wanted to destroy the television archive of Suspilne with a cyber attack.

  • At the beginning of October, Russian troops destroyed a 150-meter TV tower in Komyshuvakha, Luhansk region, which provided the needs of more than 200,000 residents of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.