Television towers in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson have been reconfigured to broadcast Russian television, the Russian army said on Tuesday.
The Russian armed forces have "reconfigured the last of the seven television towers in the Kherson region to broadcast Russian television channels" for free, it said.
A Ukrainian soldier guards at a check-point in the village of Chongar in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine close to the Crimean peninsula, Sunday, March 16, 2014. (Photo: AP)
Tuesday, one of the pro-Moscow officials in the region, Kirill Stremousov, said that the territory could join Russia "before the end of the year."
