Russians will be shown Zelensky's debate with Poroshenko live
Russian television channels will broadcast the debate between Ukrainian presidential candidates Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Petro Poroshenko, which will take place on April 19, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
This was reported by the Russian Interfax.
It is noted that, in particular, the Rossiya 24 channel plans to broadcast the debate.
“The Russia Today TV channel will broadcast the debates on the RT Russia website,” the channel’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan told the agency.
According to her, the debate will also be shown by the video agency Ruptly (part of RT). It is reported that Simonyan clarified that the broadcast will be with Russian translation.
Also, according to the publication, the executive producer of Dozhd, Svetlana Gulyaeva, said that “on the TV channel on Friday there will be a large special broadcast and a live broadcast of the debate with translation.”
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov already said that he would watch the debate between Poroshenko and Zelensky with interest, but added that he did not know whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would watch them.
Russians will be shown the debate between Zelensky and Poroshenko live.