Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has won a lawsuit against the TV Broadcasting Company Studio 1+1, the press service of Kyiv City State Administration has said.
The lawsuit concerned the airing of the program Hroshi (Money) by Olekandr Dubinsky on the 1+1 TV channel. After the release of the program in August 2019, Klitschko and co-plaintiff Dmytro Bilotserkovets filed a lawsuit to protect honor, dignity and business reputation.
“As you remember, then a wide discrediting campaign was launched against me. And I declared that I would defend my honor and dignity in court. Therefore, I filed a lawsuit against the 1+1 TV channel, which threw mud at me. There is no talk of a restriction on freedom of speech,” Klitschko said.
Following the consideration of the lawsuit, the court satisfied it, obliging the 1+1 TV channel to refute the false information on the air of the program Hroshi. The court also ordered the Studio 1+1 to remove the program in which false information was made public from all information resources of the TV company and related social networks.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), together with police and other law enforcement agencies, is carrying out urgent investigative actions and search activities in connection with the shelling of the building of the 112. Ukraine TV channel in Kyiv. “The prosecutor’s office has determined that the investigators of the SBU will conduct a pretrial investigation,” according to the SBU page on Facebook.
In the early hours on July 13, an unknown persons opened fire from a grenade launcher at the face of the TV channel’s building. No one was hurt in the shelling. A criminal case was opened on the grounds of a terror attack.
