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Fox Labels Kyiv as Russian City During Live Broadcast

The network was broadcasting different Easter services around the world when the error occurred.

Fox mistakenly labeled Kyiv as a Russian city during an online livestream of an Easter service Saturday. According to The Kyiv Post, the label ran uncorrected for 20 minutes while LiveNOW from Fox was simultaneously broadcasting different church services. The network was seemingly airing an Easter service from Moscow, Russia, and Kyiv, Ukraine, at the same time. In screen recordings circulating online, Fox mistakenly labeled Kyiv as Kyiv, Russia. “If this was a mistake rather than a deliberate political statement, there should be an apology and an investigation into who made the mistake,” Heorhii Tykhyi, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, wrote on X Sunday. Over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter ceasefire in the ongoing war with Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has since accused Russia of violating the ceasefire “more than two thousand times,” writing on X Sunday that “Putin’s words about a ‘ceasefire’” have “proven empty.”