Munich's wave to Moscow: radio team from the Ukraine broadcasts facts about the war by Freimann

Created: 06/01/2022, 08:15

Fighting for the truth: Olga Kotlytska in the small studio in Freimann.

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A group of Ukrainian media workers have set up a radio station in Freimann to report on the war in Russia.

Munich - The truth about Putin's war, about the murders in Ukraine - it comes from the north of Munich.

In a small but modern studio in Schwabing-Freimann, seven media professionals from Ukraine, Russia and Germany produce the radio show “Truth for Russia”.

"Fate brought us together in Munich and we are now united by a calling to bring the truth to Russia," emphasizes project co-founder Olga Kotlytska, who worked for many years in Ukraine as an author for a travel program.

Kotlytska has been living in Munich for 16 years and is known here as the publisher of the bilingual magazine Bei uns in Bayern.

Ukraine war: Against Moscow's lies - Ukrainians broadcast radio broadcast live from Freimann

A special focus of the radio show: reports from eyewitnesses.

A war victim tells of incidents in a small village, describes cruel details: "Russian soldiers locked all the villagers in a cellar.

A baby was 21 days old.

The mother begged the soldiers to open the door so the child could get some fresh air.

The answer was: "Then let it suffocate."

The team broadcasts three times a week on a very powerful transmitter.

Reception in Russia is therefore already possible with the smallest devices.

The initiator of the project, Aleksander Bartz, is pleased that his idea seems to be working: “Listeners send us pictures of their radios.

That is a clear signal that such a source of information is necessary.” Parallel to the broadcasts, the team also started their own YouTube and Telegram channels.

Radio station in Freimann: want to make people in Russia “think

The full-blooded Munich journalist Julia Smilga is also involved in the project.

Born in Russia, she has been working for Bayerischer Rundfunk since 2003.

Julia remembers the day the war broke out: “I was in shock.

A feeling of helplessness came over me.

Being involved with the radio station helps me counteract this feeling”.

The filmmaker Daria Onyshchenko feels the same way.

She came to Munich from Kyiv in 2006 and says: “Some people in Russia seem to believe the state narrative of a 'necessary special operation'.

I hope that we can also reach these people and at least make them think.”

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Are you afraid of the Russian government?

No, say those involved.

They feel safe in Munich.

Even if the broadcast signal had already been “specifically disrupted”.

By the way: If you want to support the project, you can contact the team by e-mail RadioPrawda@outlook.com.