Kyiv security forces storm the editorial office of the Vesti newspaper
In Kyiv, employees of the main military prosecutor's office and the National Police this morning broke into the office where the editorial office and website of the Vesti newspaper are located.
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Oksana Omelchenko, editor-in-chief of the Vesti newspaper and the Vesti-ukr.com website, writes about this on her Facebook page.
“Well, everything has begun! At about 6 am, “Gulliver” was surrounded, such “nice” people came to our floor. Colleagues from the Radio report that the sound is as if they were starting to destroy everything. We'll be launching online soon. Just today they were preparing for publication the second part of the investigation about the National Agency and its friends,” the editor of the publication said.
On the newspaper website, сообщаетсяthat the security forces kicked out the media holding's lawyers.
At the same time, the investigator of the military prosecutor’s office, Vitaly Opanasenko, began to threaten journalists, saying: “If you say anything again, I will answer for myself.”
Also, the security of the Gulliver shopping center, where the Vesti office is located, was instructed not to let journalists through.
The publication draws attention to the fact that the forceful seizure of the Vesti office was preceded by an investigation carried out by the newspaper into the activities of the Asset Search and Management Agency (ARMA) - "What ARMA is hiding: how the National Agency turned into raiders”.
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Now the editors are aware.