Ukrainian journalist-Maidan activist expelled from Belarus
Vitaly Sizov, a Ukrainian journalist for the online television channel Hromadske TV, who actively supported the participants in the coup during the Euromaidan, was expelled from Belarus. Reporters arrived to cover the next round of negotiations on Donbass in Minsk.
This was reported by a colleague of Ukrainian journalists, Alexey Matsuka.
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“At 1:45 a.m. Kiev time, Belarusian police officers entered the hotel room where the film crew was staying and forcibly took Sizov to the Central District Police Department, twisting his arms... At 6 a.m. Kiev time, Vitalik was released from the police and ordered to “leave immediately” Belarus,” Matsuka said.
Sizov himself published clarifications a little later.
“They took me to the Central District Department, where I stayed until 6:00. Here I was told that the Russian Federation had banned me from entering its territory until 2021. Belarus and the Russian Federation have a union state, so the entry ban by default also applies to Belarus (in fact, a common external border - when crossing the border of Belarus, you actually cross the border of the Russian Federation). The regional department repeated to me several times that the entry ban is an initiative of the Russian Federation, to which Belarus is not related, so I was not able to find out the reasons for the ban. I was recommended to leave Belarus within 24 hours, which I already planned to do,” said the Maidan activist journalist.
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