Separatists of Slavyansk seize TV tower and turn off Ukrainian television channels

Separatists of Slavyansk demand to start broadcast of Russian television.

Separatists of Slavyansk seize TV tower and turn off Ukrainian television channels/REUTERS

In Slavyansk separatists seized a local TV tower and turned off the Ukrainian television.

According to journalist of “Novosti Donbassa” (“News of Donbass”), this radio-television broadcast center carries out a transmission of a signal to Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Horlivka and Makeevka.

Instead of the Ukrainian television channels separatists ordered to start a broadcast of the Russian television channels.