Mykola Chernotytskyi has been the head of the Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC for a year.

It has 4,500 employees whose main task since the beginning of the war has been to keep the flow of information going to Ukraine.

Many are wondering how the Ukrainian broadcasters are still able to report and use their 27 regional channels, 36 websites and 100 social media channels.

Despite the war, despite all the risks.

Chernotytskyi gave an interview to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the association of 72 mostly public broadcasters from 56 countries.

Elena Witzeck

Editor in the Feuilleton.

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UA:PBC has since expanded into a media group that includes Ukrainian channels One Plus One, Inter, Ukraine, ICTV and Rada.

They design a program: "Razom" is aptly called - "together".

All broadcasters are united on one channel, they combine their strengths, each one takes over a few hours of broadcasting.

For the past week, Razom has only broadcast messages, giving people vital information: What to do if your home is hit by a bomb?

How do I keep myself safe?

"We provide instructions for survival," says Chernotytskyi.

"As long as we have internet"

The headquarters of UA:PBC was moved to western Ukraine in the first days of the war.

In Lemberg, the employees live and work together and produce their news in different constellations.

In most other cities in the country, employees no longer go to the editorial office or the office, but work from home.

Transmission is via satellite, radio and digital.

"As long as we have internet," says Chernotytskyi, "we don't have a problem." But then there's employee safety.

Two young employees from Chernotytskyi's digital team stayed in Kyiv.

You made a conscious decision to do so.

"They say they will continue their work in Kyiv."

The transmission tower near the editorial office in Kyiv was bombed last week.

The program was then interrupted for two hours.

Russia is also trying to jam UA:PBC's satellite.

“We had to use the reserve.” In Kherson, the TV tower was shelled, and the digital channel was diverted to a Russian channel.

"But the operator cannot control the whole tower," says Chernotytskyi.

"So we're broadcasting over the areas that aren't controlled."

Chernotytskyi also reports from the head of the Kharkiv office.

His neighbor's apartment is in ruins after a bomb attack, he and his family survived.

But everyday life in Kharkiv takes place in the shelters these weeks.

Some employees have organized themselves there on the Internet and continue to report.

Like many other Ukrainian journalists, Chernotytskyi emphasizes the importance of the messenger service Telegram.

Before the war, UA:PBC had 12,000 followers on the news app.

There are now 230,000. Chernotytskyi considers Telegram to be indispensable.

Nowhere else could information be disseminated and absorbed so quickly.

And then he makes an appeal to the Western media: "I would be grateful if colleagues from other countries could broadcast our radio signal.

I would be grateful if the stations could broadcast on AM frequencies, which are very popular in Ukraine.” All Chernotytskyi wants is to return to Kyiv and continue reporting from there.