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Poles help restore TV, radio in recaptured Kherson

13.11.2022 11:15
In the recently retaken strategic city of Kherson, southern Ukraine, authorities were able to bring back local TV and radio transmissions on a platform provided by a Polish company, Poland’s PAP news agency said on Saturday.
Kherson oblast, Ukraine -  a view of a sign as the Ukrainian military enters the southern city of Kherson after Russian retreat from the region in village of Kyselivka,  November 12, 2022.
Kherson oblast, Ukraine - a view of a sign as the Ukrainian military enters the southern city of Kherson after Russian retreat from the region in village of Kyselivka, November 12, 2022. Photo: Metin Aktas / PAP/Abaca

Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection said it had re-established the signal for a local TV channel, and radio broadcasts in Kherson and surrounding areas, thus enabling local residents to receive verified information on the war developments, PAP wrote.

“We managed to pull it off thanks to a powerful new transmitter that Polish friends from Emitel SA sent to Ukraine's Broadcasting, Radiocommunications and Television Corporation (BRT),” the service wrote in a press release as quoted by PAP.

Experts from Emitel, the main operator of terrestrial radio and television infrastructure in Poland, had installed a 4kW transmitter in the neighbouring Mykolaiv Oblast a few days before the western part of the Kherson Oblast was liberated from the Russian occupation, the statement elaborated.

"We are grateful to our Polish partners for providing the equipment that suported the return of Ukrainian television and radio in the liberated territories," BRT Director Serhiy Semerey said.

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Source: PAP