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Moscow formally protests journalist’s arrest in Ukraine

Moscow formally protests journalist's arrest in Ukraine | iNFOnews.ca
In this photo taken in 2015 showing Kirill Vyshinskiy, bureau chief of RIA Novosti news agency in Ukraine, posing for a photo in Kiev, who was detained on suspicion of treason. Ukraine's state security agency raided offices of two Russian state-owned media outlets in the Ukrainian capital Tuesday and leveled treason accusations against Vyshinskiy, a move that drew sharp criticism from the top trans-Atlantic security and rights group. (AP Photo/Evgen Kotenko) A

Moscow is protesting the arrest of a Russian journalist in Ukraine, and the Council of Europe and other human rights groups have expressed concern.

Ukraine’s domestic security agency, the SBU, detained Kirill Vyshinskiy, the head of the Ukraine office of Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency, on treason charges. His arrest followed SBU raids of the Kyiv offices of RIA Novosti and RT television Tuesday.

The agency alleges the Russian state-funded media outlets were being “used as tools in a hybrid war against Ukraine.”

The Kremlin denounced Ukraine’s action as an attack on media freedom, and the Russian Foreign Ministry lodged a formal protest.

The Council of Europe said Wednesday it was “concerned about the implications that repeated detentions of journalists may have for the situation with media freedom in Ukraine.”

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