Additional funding ‘covers unexpected costs’ and will help tackle disinformation ‘in the face of propaganda’

The BBC World Service is to get £4.1m in extra funding to support its Ukrainian and Russian services, the government has announced.

Ministers said the funding would “cover urgent and unexpected costs” that have arisen as a result of the invasion of Ukraine and would help the corporation to tackle disinformation “in the face of systemic propaganda”.

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