Valery Matutsin/TASS
The Ukrainian Security Service broke into the RIA Novosti-Ukraine Kiev office. According to witnesses, people with jacks in hands headed towards the building.Security Service employees called the office and after that the connection with the journalist who was in the office at that moment was disrupted.
SBU explained that in this way the investigation is arranged. Moscow-controlled media has been the subject of it. The Ukrainian Security Service stated that this media of “the aggressor country” (this is how Russia is called in Ukraine today) used the hybrid informational war against Ukraine.
Earlier in the day, RIA Novosti journalist Kirill Vyshinsky was detained by Ukrainian law enforcement officers. According to his colleagues it has happened next to his house in Kiev.
It is worth mentioning that earlier The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Kiev's policy against the media. The Russian MFA is sure that Kiev repeatedly restricts the work of Russian media in the country, discrediting Ukraine as a member of the international community. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Kiev uses worst totalitarian practices to suppress dissent in 21st century. She demanded decisive reproaching of the repression politics of Ukraine in relation towards Russian mass media sources.
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