The Ukrainian interior minister's aide said some media providers in Donbas continue broadcasting Russian television programs.
"I ask all residents of towns in the Donbas to inform me whether Russian TV channels were disconnected or Dmitry Kiselev still climbs into the brains of your neighbors. We will take rigorous but lawful measures, and disconnect Russian television channels from Donbas residents' brains," Anton Heraschenko wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
He said an acquaintance of his from the town of Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region complained that although his town had been freed from militants the local cable network continues Russian television channels' broadcasts.
Heraschenko said that he had asked the provider by phone to remove this content, but did not get a positive response. He then called a commander of the National Guard's Third Donbas Regiment, involved in the effort to restore order in Krasnoarmiysk and its suburbs on order from Battalion Commander Semen Semenchenko.
"Pavlo K. travelled to Novohrodivka on Saturday for talks with the director of the local cable TV operator and - Thank God! - Russian television channels no longer contaminate the local resident's brains," Heraschenko said.
He said the provider switched off Russian television "in an absolutely voluntary way, after a friendly conversation in the presence of four National Guard srevicemen."
"The meeting left no one hurt. Logic and conviction were their sole weapon," he said.
Reports said earlier that the Kyiv Administrative District Court has been hearing the ban on four Russian television channels since March 2014. These channels are Channel One. World Network; RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24 and NTV-Mir. Pending the litigation broadcasts of these television channels were banned.
The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting informed providers on July 17 that it would turn to courts to revoke their licenses if they broadcast programs of the Russian television channels Rossiya 1, NTV, TNT, Petersburg-5, Zvezda and REN TV and fail to comply with the current litigation.
