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Enhance Resilience During Wartime

Enhance Resilience During Wartime

When the Ukrainian media had just started recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 22 months of hostilities, Russia committed around 548 crimes against the journalists and media in Ukraine including ruining of editorial offices, shelling of TV-towers, cybercrimes, etc.

In March 2022, Ukraine’s advertising market was destroyed and till the summer of 2022, the vast majority of Ukrainian media companies had no income. According to All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition, if to compare the size of the whole advertising market in Ukraine in 2021, before Russia’s full-scale invasion, and its size in 2023, it recovered by around 52%.

In such conditions, media companies not only had to reduce staff and significantly decrease content production, they also accumulated debts. Due to Russia’s regular missile attacks on the cities as well as power outages introduced as a result of attacks on power plants, media outlets lost their equipment. Thus, at the end of 2022, the number of companies that stopped operations increased. Particularly significant number of such media are local and hyperlocal ones.

The extended war with Russia will leave many Ukrainian cities without local media what will be a substantial loss for numerous communities. Therefore, our priority is to support the affected by the war Ukrainian media and provide them with short-term grants and equipment to continue operations during wartime and hold on until the victory of Ukraine.