The IPI global network today condemns the unprecedented Russian attack on the offices of Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne in Dnipro on the night of November 17, which represents an escalation in the targeting of media infrastructure by Russian forces.

No journalists or staff were injured in the attack, though the strike destroyed a significant amount of office space and technical equipment in what used to be the regional hub of Ukraine’s public broadcaster in the country’s fourth-largest city. An IPI member, Suspilne broadcasts from branches across the country’s territory, including from Dnipro.

The broadcaster reported extensive damage to the building, including blown out windows and doors. Cameras and editing stations belonging to the channel are believed to have been destroyed in the attack.

The offices of several affiliates of Suspilne were also partially destroyed, including Ukrainian Radio and Suspilne Donbas – the regional service of the broadcaster for Ukraine’s Donbas region which is operating in Dnipro for security reasons. The regional hub of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), one of Ukraine’s leading media advocacy and support organizations, was also partially destroyed, as was a TV tower in Dnipro.

According to IMI, publications by Russian sources about the strike indicate that the attack on the TV tower was likely premeditated. The Russian military has not claimed responsibility for the strike.

“IPI condemns Russia’s latest strikes on media offices and infrastructure in Ukraine,” said IPI Eastern Europe Advocacy Lead Karol Łuczka. “While Russian forces have targeted Ukrainian media offices in the past, this attack is unprecedented both by the scale of the destruction caused and indications it was likely premeditated.”

The strike underlines a pattern of increased intensity of Russian attacks on Ukrainian and international media operating in Ukraine, which IPI has observed since the end of summer 2025.

Since the start of this year, IPI has documented 14 attacks on Ukrainian media infrastructure carried out by Russian forces. Attacks of this type stepped up in 2024, when 14 strikes were also recorded, as opposed to only four in 2023. The attack on the Dnipro office of Suspilne is the most serious observed incident to date: the only remotely comparable events of this type were the strikes on Ukraine’s state-owned TV channel Freedom in Kyiv, in February and in April 2025.

Russia has also stepped up its attacks on journalists working near front lines in eastern Ukraine. In October, three media workers were killed by Russian forces while carrying out their work, meaning that levels of attacks on media are now at their highest since March 2022. IPI also recorded eight non-lethal attacks on journalists by Russian forces since the end September, as opposed to only five between January and August of this year.