Armed men are installing satellite equipment on the grounds of the radio and television broadcasting company (KRRT) in Kramatorsk to ensure reception of Russian channels, while switching off Ukrainian ones, there are no police on the grounds, KRRT spokesperson Pavlo Bilonozhko told Interfax.
The armed men are bringing in their own equipment and setting it up
to enable the reception of Russian channels while switching off
transmitters sending the analog signal of Ukrainian television channels,
he said.
At the same time, it is more difficult to switch off a digital signal
because it is encrypted, Bilonozhko said. However, the people who
seized the KRRT facilities are receiving access codes from their sources
and can start switching off the digital transmitters too, he said.
By 5 p.m. there had been no police on the company grounds, the spokesman said.
Earlier reports said that KRRT chief Kostiantyn Zakharenko wrote to
inform the State Service for Special Communications and Information
Protection that ten gunmen entered the KRRT facilities in Kramatorsk at
14:45 p.m. on Thursday, massed along the perimeter and gained access to
the equipment.
