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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore

Melbourne radio station 3ZZZ suspends Russian-language broadcaster over Ukraine war reports

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3ZZZ president George Salloum said the station had suspended the broadcaster following complaints. Photograph: aleksandr Lychagin/Alamy

A Melbourne community radio station has cut ties with a volunteer Russian-language broadcaster after complaints that his program was promoting war propaganda amid the invasion of Ukraine.

The program on 3ZZZ broadcast pro-Kremlin information about the war in Ukraine, including a speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin where he claimed the war was justified because of the need to “demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. The program had a one-hour slot on Wednesdays and Fridays.

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