Polish state TV launches channel in Ukrainian

Poland’s public broadcaster, TVP, has launched a new Ukrainian-language channel. Called Slawa (the Polish transliteration of слава, meaning “honour” in Ukrainian and transliterated as slava in English), the station began broadcasting on Monday this week.

It aims to present “the most important information about Ukraine” as well as “to convey the Polish and European point of view on the processes taking place in Ukraine and in the world”, said TVP in a statement.

The new channel will broadcast for six hours a day, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Polish time (which is one hour behind Kyiv time). It also offers a website providing news stories in Ukrainian.