Until the Russian invasion, Kraina FM mainly played Ukrainian rock and pop. “Now it’s mostly just rock” and “not happy information,” one of the men behind the channel said.
, most of the station’s staff left Kyiv after the fighting began. “Everyone was scattered for two or three days,” Bolkhovetsky told me. “You look at Google Maps, you see the name of the city and you just start calling hotels to stay overnight.”
Davydov had fled Kyiv with his wife and three-year-old daughter, heading to his wife’s office in central Kyiv, where they thought they would be safe. But Russian shelling forced them to seek shelter underground for days. Davydov had a microphone and a connector in the trunk of his car, a setup that he had previously used to record soccer news late at night for early-morning bulletins.
Once they got Kraina FM up and running at their mountain location, a representative from the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting in Ukraine requested that they play a national broadcast. “Everybody else switched to the national station,” Bolkhovetsky told me. “It was a continuous broadcast of just one program on TV stations and everywhere.” Bolkhovetsky and Davydov decided to continue their own programming.
A network of around fifteen people, in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia, helps them put out Kraina FM’s programs remotely. They use Ukrainian news agencies and the app Telegram to source and put together bulletins. The Internet connection is awful, and they’re often unable to upload stories and recordings. Usually, Kraina FM’s programming reaches about a million people, but these days they have no idea how many people are listening.
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