The European Union is to ban the Kremlin-backed talk channel RT.
In a series of moves announced on Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU would ban RT (Russia Today) and the news agency Sputnik.
“Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war and to sow division in our union. So we are developing tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe.”
As also reported by Broadband TV News, a campaign led Ukraine’s Ministry of culture and information policy, and supported by leading Ukrainian media groups – 1+1 media, StarLight Media, Media Group Ukraine, Inter Media Group has written to operators asking them to pull the plug on any Russian news channels broadcasting over satellite, cable and OTT.
A number of countries have already taken their own action at both national and operator level. Poland and Latvia were early movers. However, the UK is waiting on the outcome of an Ofcom investigation into RT.
