Pro TV Chișinău was the only TV to cover live the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests, for international television stations. APTN took the satellite signal by PRO TV as its broadcast was attacked with stones. Pro TV Chișinău supplied news stories and pictures for TV stations across the world, mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. Pro TV Chișinău reported live for PRO TV in Bucharest from Russia (as in case of Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002).