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| Separatists seize control of TV HQ in east Ukraine city |
| 2014-04-28 |
| [Al Ahram] Pro-Russian separatists on Sunday seized control of the offices of regional state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and said they would take it off air and broadcast a Kremlin-backed Russian channel instead. A Rooters news hound said four separatists in masks, with truncheons and shields, were standing at the entrance to the building controlling access, while more separatists in camouflage fatigues could be seen inside. About 15 coppers were standing a short distance away but were not trying to resist the separatists. One police lieutenant, who was sitting in a police vehicle nearby, said it would have been pointless to intervene. It was the first time the station had been seized by the separatists, though previously a transmission tower in the Donetsk region had briefly been seized and technicians forced to broadcast Russian stations' output. |
| Posted by:Fred |