Oplot TV (Russian: Оплот ТВ) is a television channel created in 2014 in the context of the

Russo-Ukrainian war The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

and the creation of the

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...

, currently one of the

Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine The Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are areas of southern and eastern Ukraine that are controlled by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the ongoing invasion. In Ukrainian law, they are defined as the "temporarily occu ...

. The channel specializes mainly in news and information content. The name Oplot is taken from a separatist social movement, "Oplot of Donbas".

History

Oplot TV started broadcasting on August 8, 2014. Until 2018,

Ismail Abdullaiev Ismail Adaliatovych Abdullaiev (born 23 May 1966), also known under the pseudonym Vladimir Abdullaev (), is a Russian citizen from Donetsk Oblast, currently operating as the director of the pro-Russian broadcasting company Tavria TV, and formerly ...

was its director. The channel replaced Donbas TV and absorbed some of its senior technical staff, who were aiding Russian propaganda in the process. Abdullaiev restarted his television career in 2022 by creating Tavria TV. Oplot was one of the channels hacked by Ukrainians on August 22, 2024 to air a video about the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

. The channel had to suspend its operations for a while.

References

Television channels and stations established in 2014 Russian-language television stations Russian propaganda organizations Television in the Donetsk People's Republic {{Europe-tv-station-stub