After a blast sounded around the city and smoke was seen rising in the Babi Yar district, the interior ministry said the equipment had been damaged and “channels won’t work for a while”.
Immediately after the strike, the interior minister confirmed that the equipment was damaged and it will take a while before the channels will work again. In the meantime, he said that backup systems would be put into operation to restore programming.
A photograph distributed by the interior ministry showed a thick cloud of smoke billowing from part of the tower, but AFP journalists with a view of the scene could see it still standing.
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Earlier, the Russian defence ministry spokesman had said that Moscow’s forces would hit technological infrastructure in Kyiv “to suppress information attacks on Russia”.
But the targets he cited — the SBU security service and the army psychological operations unit — did not include the civilian-run television tower in the capital.
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