Freedom of speech in Ukraine has not faded away and has survived the ongoing Russian aggression against the country, Ukrainian officials said.
“We live in times when the main news is coming from the frontlines,” Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy, told a crowd at a recent conference on media freedom in Kyiv.
A recorded message of the Ukrainian Minister for Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko is played during the 23rd Frankfurt Book Fair at the Messe fairground in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on Oct.19, 2022.The media audience in Ukraine still has a variety of information sources to choose from -- unlike on the territories currently occupied by Russia, the experts said.
Reznikov also explained the rationale behind information silence or control in Ukraine -- most evident on social media -- saying Russian army reports to the Kremlin facts from the frontline roughly two and a half days after the given event. It is vital to make sure that the Russians will not be provided with valuable information in that time frame, before the Ukrainian army is ready to make its next move, Reznikov said.
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