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Oplot TV

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Oplot TV
CountryUkraine
HeadquartersDonetsk, Ukraine
Programming
LanguageRussian
Picture format576i SDTV
1080i HDTV
History
LaunchedAugust 8, 2014
Links
Websiteoplottv.ru

Oplot TV (Russian: Оплот ТВ) is a television channel created in 2014 in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the creation of the Donetsk People's Republic, currently one of the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. The channel specializes mainly in news and information content.

The name Oplot is taken from a separatist social movement, "Oplot of Donbas".[1]

History

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Oplot TV started broadcasting on August 8, 2014. Until 2018, Ismail Abdullaiev was its director.[2] The channel replaced Donbas TV and absorbed some of its senior technical staff, who were aiding Russian propaganda in the process.[3] Abdullaiev restarted his television career in 2022 by creating Tavria TV.[4][5][6]

Oplot was one of the channels hacked by Ukrainians on August 22, 2024 to air a video about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The channel had to suspend its operations for a while.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Map of the actors in the Donbas conflict: local actors of Certain areas of Donetsk oblast, NGCA" (pdf). CivilM+. 2020.
  2. ^ "Створену окупантами в Херсоні телерадіокомпанію "Таврія" очолив пропагандист з "ДНР", екс-директор телекомпанії "Оплот"" [The "Tavria" broadcasting company created by the occupiers in Kherson was headed by a propagandist from the "DNR", ex-director of the "Oplot" television company]. MOST information agency. (in Ukrainian). 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  3. ^ "Ten Years of Propaganda: How the Russians Seized Donetsk Media". Detector Media. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  4. ^ "SSU notifies suspicion to Prigozhin's associate who launched russian TV channel in temporarily occupied Kherson region". SSU. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  5. ^ "Пропагандист из "ДНР" возглавил созданный в оккупированном Херсоне телеканал "Таврия"". ФОКУС (in Russian). 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  6. ^ "Соратнику Пригожина грозит до 12 лет за коллаборационизм – СБУ". Крым.Реалии (in Russian). 2023-06-17. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  7. ^ "Ukrainian Intelligence hacks Russian TV channels to show truth about war". RBC-Ukraine. Retrieved 2024-11-21.