The Russian troops struck the television infrastructure facilities in the Kharkiv oblast with drones en masse on the night of March 14, reports the head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, Oleh Synehubov.

"Tonight, the enemy carried out a mass drone attack on the television infrastructure objects in the oblast. Some of them are being restored," he wrote in his Telegram channel.

Synehubov reported that about 15 municipalities of the Kharkiv oblast were hit by Russian artillery and mortar shelling: Synkivka, Ivanivka, Berestove, Hraniv, Strilecha, Borysivka, Vovchanski Khutory, etc. The enemy also targeted Vovchansk with air strikes. There are no casualties.

The Russian troops also carried out missile and air strikes on the radio facilities in the Sumy oblast, reports the Sumy Oblast Military Administration.

The shelling temporarily disabled the TV and radio transmitters in Sumy, Shostka, Bilopylla and Trostianka, clarifies the OMA.

"Due to the damage, part of the oblast is (temporarily) unable to receive Ukrainian TV and radio signals. There may be problems with mobile connection," OMA noted.

The head of the Sumy oblast military administration, Volodymyr Artiukh, urged the people not to panic and to switch to alternative communication channels.

"The enemy is waging an informational war, destroying the Ukrainian broadcasting. We will not let them win. The impact is currently being assessed and restoration plans are already in development. Do not give in to panic and provocations. Switch to alternative means of communication, only trust verified sources of information," he said.

In her comment to the regional IMI representative, the representative of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting in the Sumy oblast, Larysa Yakubenko reported that Russia was deliberately targeting such objects.

"The enemy is purposefully shelling the critical infrastructure of the Sumy oblast and civilian objects, including the information infrastructure. Namely, this year, the feeders on the Druzhba tower were damaged by the early March shelling. The day before yesterday, on March 12, it was the ones on the Krasnopillia tower. Both towers were built last year as part of the Roadmap for the Development of the Sumy Oblast Information Landscape," she said, adding that the repair work was done by specialists from the Sumy Technical Center at the Kharkiv branch of the BRTC, and that the broadcasting has already been restored.

As a result, the broadcasting of Suspilne's T2 TV channels and radio channels is temporarily unavailable in the Sumy oblast and the Kharkiv oblast due to Russia's March 14 strikes on radio communications facilities.

There is no Suspilne TV broadcasting in T2 in Sumy and some cities of the Sumy oblast. In Bilopillia and Shostka, there is no TV or radio broadcasting by Suspilne.

The strikes on the broadcasting infrastructure are most likely aimed to block access to any information regarding the ongoing operation of the Russian volunteer military units which entered the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions this week.