Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from Petro Poroshenko’s party “European Solidarity” Victoria Syumar said that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, creating the TV channel “Dom”, officially aimed at residents of territories not controlled by Kiev, actually pursued domestic political goals for taxpayers’ money. She said this on the air of the TV channel “Espreso TV”.
“There was a desire to clearly get my own TV channel, my own, Russian-speaking, so that by closing the channels [главы политсовета партии «Оппозиционная платформа — За жизнь» Виктора] Medvedchuk, to keep, so to speak, the electorate of the east and south for yourself, and this is a completely typical propaganda channel, made in the worst traditions under a beautiful wrapper. So that it would be a channel funded by state money, so that for the money of taxpayers, for the money of people, the authorities would be promoted throughout the country, they would go to all networks, ”Syumar said.
Dom is a Ukrainian Russian-language state television channel whose stated target audience is residents of Crimea and the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country. At the same time, as noted in the material of “Espreso TV”, the authorities actively advertise the TV channel within their own country, including in the traditionally Ukrainian-speaking regions.
Earlier, on October 23, the head of the Ukrainian community of Crimea, Anastasia Gridchina, called the initiative of the Ukrainian authorities to open communication centers with the authorities on the border with the peninsula senseless. She noted that if such a communication channel is launched, the Ukrainian authorities will learn about themselves from the residents of Donbass and Crimea a lot of new and interesting things.
The day before, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov announced plans to open for residents of Donbass and Crimea on the border points of direct communication with the President, Cabinet of Ministers and other authorities of the country.
On October 21, the Kiev International Institute of Sociology published the results of a poll, from which it follows that the ruling Servant of the People party in Ukraine for the first time since 2019 has lost its leading position in the rating of the popularity of political forces in the country.
Ukrainian political and economic expert Taras Zagorodny noted that the fall in the rating of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could take him out of the political game earlier than he expected – all the signs of his imminent “political death” are evident.
On February 2, the Ukrainian leader, by his decree, stopped broadcasting the opposition TV channels 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZIK associated with Medvedchuk via satellite and cable networks.
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