The letter, believed to have been personally handed to Eutelsat chief Eva Berneke by a member of Ukrainian embassy staff, threatens to sour relations between Paris and Kyiv.
“We will be forced to initiate the blocking of any of its activities in the territory of Ukraine,” Ohla Herasymiuk, chair of the broadcasting regulator, warns in the letter.
Eutelsat has been accused of broadcasting Russian TV channels that “systemically express support for the aggressive actions of the Russian government in Ukraine”, including efforts to “incite genocide of the Ukranian people”, the letter said.
A Eutelsat spokesman declined to comment.
The satellite operator, valued at €1.9bn, has faced repeated demands from French campaigners to “stop bloodcasting”, including protests outside its head office and demands from MPs and top European parliamentarians to remove the…
