How Pro-Kremlin Media is Trying to Get Around Sanctions
March 23, 2021
❌ After the imposition of #sanctions on #Medvedchuk’s TV channels, his team created First Independent (Pershyi Nezalezhnyi) TV channel. It claims to be #independent, but spreads the same pro-Russian narratives.
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) March 23, 2021
📽 Watch our new #video to learn more. pic.twitter.com/mfCen4wnGu
On February 26, a new First Independent (Pershyi Nezalezhnyi) TV channel was launched. It claims to be independent, but our analysis reveals that it has the same hosts, guests, narratives, and management as the sanctioned Medvedchuk’s TV channels, namely 112 Ukraine, NewsOne, and ZIK. Watch our new video to learn how Medvedchuk and his team are trying to circumvent sanctions.
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