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Kraina FM ( uk, Країна ФМ) — Ukraine's first all-
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-language radio, broadcast in 26 cities in
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and online prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It appeared from «Radio EU» November 9, 2016.
Oleh Skrypka Oleh Yuriyovych Skrypka ( uk, Оле́г Ю́рійович Скри́пка, Oleh Yuriiovych Skrypka, ; born 24 May 1964) is a Ukrainian musician, vocalist, composer, and leader of the group Vopli Vidoplyasova. Biography Oleh Skrypka was born ...
works as one of radio broadcasters. In late February 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the bombing of its broadcast tower in Kyiv, Kraina FM re-launched from an undisclosed location through remaining radio broadcast towers and online at as "The Radio of National Resistance," becoming a clearinghouse for broadcasting requests for humanitarian, medical, and military materiel and connecting donors with those requesting help, as reported by
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, "The Anne Levine Show" on
WOMR WOMR (92.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a public broadcasting community radio station based in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Its call-sign stands for "Outermost Radio". It started broadcasting in 1982 on 91.9MHz, switching to 92.1 in 1995 to gain a p ...
, CBC,https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-4-2022-1.6407495/this-ukrainian-radio-station-is-staying-on-air-for-the-war-effort-from-a-makeshift-studio-in-the-mountains-1.6413322 and other media outlets. As Kraina FM General Manager Bogdan Bolkhovetsky explained to Cape Cod radio host Anne Levine, "We invite our military listeners to call in and to say what they need right now. And they might need binoculars, they might need printers to print out some documents or papers. They might need socks. They might need computers or laptop. They might need some medicine. And people who listen to the station, if this member of the audience, if he has a laptop at home, he just brings him to the military guys … or they just contact us through the webpage or through social media ndwe just text him the phone number of the person who was asking for a printer ... the information you listen to, it will save your life … It might literally save your life or you might save somebody's life.''


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Kramatorsk Kramatorsk ( uk, Краматорськ, translit=Kramatorsk ) is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in the northern portion of Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a city of oblast significan ...
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