Television Of Luhansk Region Between The Information And Full-Scale War: Destroyed Revival

Abstract

ntroduction. The activity of the television organizations of Luhansk region was analyzed, which proved the stages of its development. The stage of development, which falls on the period 2015-2022, is detailed. Relevance of the study. The purpose of the article is to analyze the mass communication activities of the regional TV channels of the Luhansk region in the conditions of hybrid aggression and the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, which involves clarifying the features and stages of the development of television broadcasting, determining the existing threats to the information security system, and analyzing the activities of Luhansk region’s television companies during 2015-2022. Methodology. A set of general scientific and special scientific methods and techniques was used: descriptive, comparative-historical, classification, statistical. Collectively, they became the only mechanism for performing the assigned tasks. Results. The deep integration of the media into the local political system, which in its majority had anti-Ukrainian views, was confirmed, which during the period of controversial events contributed to the formation and dissemination of anti-Ukrainian narratives by means of television, the active use of the media resource to carry out informational attacks towards Ukraine. First destroyed in 2014 due to Russia’s occupation of part of the territory and revived in 2015 on the territories controlled by Ukraine, TV, developing in the system of the national information space, faced problems of a systemic nature, some of which posed a threat to the national security of Ukraine. A full-scale invasion once again destroyed the regional TV and led to the occupation of new territories and the annexation of the sovereign information field. Conclusions. Unresolved security challenges and a full-scale war led to the occupation of almost the entire territory of Luhansk region, the destruction of the Ukrainian regional television system, the annexation of the sovereign information field and its frequency resource used by Russian propaganda broadcasters. We consider further studies of mass communication activities in the conditions of an emergency, hybrid and military aggression to be promising in view of the presence of challenges for the global system of information and transnational security.