EXCLUSIVE: The largest Ukrainian media organizations have penned an open letter to European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen urging sanctions on all Russian TV channels.
The group, which incorporates the heads of 1+1 Media, Starlight Media, Inter Media Group and members of the Ukrainian authorities, requested von der Leyen and her Vice President Věra Jourová to as an alternative advocate European information suppliers to look at Ukrainian TV information.
The biggest Ukrainian media organizations have joined collectively because the Russian invasion two weeks in the past to broadcast a 24/7 United Information newscast so as to greatest hold the nation knowledgeable.
“Russian TV channels are justifying the Russian conflict towards Ukraine of their a number of information tales, they’re withholding the reality about the actual scale of the army actions and their very own losses,” stated the open letter, which accused the Russians of “producing an infinite quantity of faux information.”
The letter requested that sanctions be imposed “on all Russian TV channels that are broadcasting by satellites or some other expertise” and to “ban their distribution on EU territory.”
It listed the likes of RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24 and NTV Mir as channels which might be “detrimental to informational safety of the entire world.”
Members of the media neighborhood and NGO staff have been inspired to signal the open letter.
The transfer is Ukraine’s newest in its try and persuade the world to impose “media sanctions” on Putin’s Russia, with the knowledge conflict seen as one of many key battlegrounds of the battle.
The open letter welcomed the EU’s transfer to close down entry to information companies RT and Sputnik. Google Europe has additionally blocked these supplier’s YouTube channels and they’re being investigated by UK regulator Ofcom.