Photo by Nolan Peterson/Coffee or Die Magazine. Oleksandr Bessonov at his Army FM recording studio. ![]() “Now my weapons are a microphone and a mixing console. “I used to defend my country with a gun,” Bessonov said during an interview at Army FM’s downtown Kyiv studio. Although he’s no longer in the trenches, Bessonov remains on the front lines of another type of war - Ukraine’s defense against Russian information warfare. The Ukrainian troops loved it - and they could hear their enemies complaining about the insulting tune over open radio transmissions.īessonov, who is now a first lieutenant, left the front lines in the spring of 2016 and joined Army FM, a Ukrainian military-funded radio station that broadcasts from 27 locations across Ukraine, including within the eastern war zone. Then, Bessonov recorded a jingle that disparaged Russian President Vladimir Putin. A communications specialist, Bessonov cobbled together enough gear to broadcast within the Ukrainian town of Marinka, where his unit was stationed, as well as into Russian-occupied territory on the other side of no man’s land.Īt first, he just played music. ![]() KYIV, Ukraine - While deployed on the front lines in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in 2015, Ukrainian army soldier Oleksandr Bessonov built a pirate radio station.
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