On 2 January 2024, the office of Ukrainian media group NV was damaged as a result of Russian airstrikes across Kyiv on that day. Ukraine’s House of Cinema was also damaged in the same attack. As reported by NV, no media workers were harmed in the incident. The news was also later confirmed to Ukrainian press freedom group Detector Media by Radio NV editor-in-chief Oleksiy Tarasov.
“This morning, as a result of Russian shelling in Kyiv, the NV office was damaged: some windows were blown out, the entrance door was blown away, some [elements] fell from the ceiling. Because of all this, today we had to postpone broadcasts for two hours. In general, the damage is not critical. As far as I know, the doors of our office have already been fixed somehow, the windows are being dealt with now. Of course, those who were at their workplace when the fragments [of the Russian missile or drone] hit are scared. Everything around is burning and exploding, meanwhile people have to [produce] broadcasts. These are impossible conditions for work. Today’s events forced us to return again to the idea of creating a backup studio in some kind of bunker, that is, in a safe place, so that we would have the opportunity not to interrupt broadcasts and not to expose our colleagues to danger. Now we are looking for technical possibilities for this,” Tarasov said.
NV, also known as New Voice and formerly as Novoye Vremya (New Time in Russian), is a leading Ukrainian weekly published since 2014, as well as a radio station on air since 2018. The media group’s main topic of focus is Ukrainian politics.