A senior government official was quoted on Monday as saying Ukraine plans to launch a worldwide Russian-language TV channel, as part of an effort to win the hearts and minds of people living in the eastern Donbas region and Russia.
Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelensky had floated the idea during his successful election campaign this year promising to end Russia's five-year invasion of eastern Ukraine and occupation of Crimea.
"It must be admitted that Ukraine practically lost the information war for the minds of people in the occupied territories of Donbas and in occupied Crimea," Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff, told Interfax-Ukraine news agency in an interview.
"But there is still a chance to turn the situation around," he said, adding that the channel should be state-run but source some content from private Ukrainian television channels, he said.
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