The special broadcast on Ukrainian public radio has been going on for a year, just like the war has been going on for a year. It is from a bunker in kyiv, guarded by armed soldiers and a lot of police, that this 98-year-old newsroom works and, of course, disseminates mainly war news.
Yuri Tabachenko is a producer for the radio station’s channel one, and as he prepares to speak with TSF, listen, like all Ukrainian listeners, to the speech with which Volodymyr Zelensky marks the first year of the Russian invasion.
Earlier, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces had warned that “unpleasant surprises” could arrive in the country during the day from Russia. Despite this, it should be noted that no warning sirens were heard tonight.
The word now belongs to Yuri Tabachenko, not to his radio microphones, but to the TSF. This morning, she confirms herself, “is no different” from the last 364. “It’s a marathon.”
There are dozens of journalists working on the same topic, that of war, but from different angles. For example, Bernard-Henri Levy, a French writer who, since the beginning of the invasion, has been to Ukraine several times in demonstrations of support, is being interviewed on Kultura radio at this time.
It is in an old building, near Maidan Square, in the center of the capital, that the studios of Radio Ukraine are spread over six floors. There is also a digital platform and a television channel.
The day’s schedule also includes a great report that reviews the first hours of the invasion. It has the testimony of several listeners who, in the first hours, also acted as reporters.
Listeners write and call to thank the work of this newsroom which, in the last year, has never stopped broadcasting, although many times under very difficult conditions.
Roman Kolyada, editor of radio channel one, was working when the war broke out. “It was terrible, there was fear and uncertainty”, but also another feeling that he never forgets.
“We are Radio Ukraine, we have to keep talking about what is most important to people: humanitarian corridors, air alerts, everything that was in the news at the time,” he recalls. “It was difficult, but it’s our job.”
Since then, he reinforces, it has been “the same broadcast, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” And it can be heard here.
Source: TSF
