At the end of the 1960s, the USSR began to build a powerful transmitter site for the broadcasting soft propaganda to Western countries in Grigoriupol in the Maiac region of Transnistria.

The de facto Transnistrian government sold the facility to the Russian state media company RIA Novosti in 2007, and the Russian government mandated that Vesti FM be transmitted over Grigoriupol's powerful medium-wave transmitters.

Vesti FM started broadcasting on 1413 kHz with a transmitter power of 500 KW from 2014, prior to the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

On 26 April 2022, one of the multiple antenna systems of Vesti FM was blown up by unknown perpetrators,[1][2] as part of the wider Transnistria attacks.

Solovyov also stated that if not for the police, "the people [the counter-protesters] would simply tear them to pieces", a statement which was criticized by protesters and journalist Alexander Nevzorov.