On 12 February 2025, media offices in Kyiv were damaged as a result of Russian missile strikes on the city, local media reported.
One of the affected outlets was ATR, a television channel for Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar ethnic minority. According to Ayder Muzhdabayev, the channel’s deputy general director, a Russian missile had landed near the building where the office is located. As a result, windows and doors at the office were blown out by the blast from the explosion.
The office of the TV channel’s editor-in-chief was reportedly “badly damaged”, while furniture and equipment in the channel’s production studio was broken. A video published by ATR showed broken glass from windows spread across the office’s floor.
“I have no doubt that the TV channel was [purposefully] targeted [by Russia]. Such cases do not happen just like that. So I think the ATR TV channel was the target,” Muzhdabayev claimed.
“And now [we are] deprived of everything. The only luck [in this situation] is that no one here was physically injured. Everyone is alive,” said the deputy general director of ATR.
Around the same time, a Russian missile also landed near office buildings used by Ukraine’s state service for foreign broadcasting (Inomovlennya). According to a reporter with TV channel Freedom, one of the affected outlets, which is part of the Inomovlennya media corporation, dozens of windows were shattered in the attack. Production studios and cars belonging to the channel were also damaged.
No one was injured in the incident, Freedom reported.