Moldovan TV presenter of Russian channel banned from visiting Ukraine
Ukrainian border guards banned entry into Ukraine for a period of three years for a Russian TV presenter who worked for the RBC TV channel and visited Crimea in the summer of 2018.
This was reported on the official website of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The department reported that on November 29.11.2020, XNUMX, Ukrainian border guards in the Odessa region stopped a woman who was planning to travel from Moldova to Russia in transit through Ukraine. She turned out to be the host of the Russian TV channel RBC.
“During passport control, the database of the border department was triggered in relation to the citizen, because before her attempt to cross the border, State Tax Service employees already had preliminary information about her illegal trips to occupied Crimea. An additional check was carried out to clarify all the circumstances,” the department said.
Border guards interrogated the woman, during which they asked who she was, where she worked, and whether she had visited Crimea.
“I worked as a presenter at RBC. This is an economic channel, not involved in politics. She worked in Moscow, in a studio.
Well, the young man says that I went to Crimea, but I don’t remember exactly. I remember exactly that I didn’t go on the ferry, as he asked me. It seems to me that we were in Crimea for several weeks,” she answered questions.
As a result, border guards established that the TV presenter visited Crimea in the summer of 2018, having entered the peninsula not from Ukraine, which, according to Ukrainian legislation, is an offense. In connection with this, the woman was banned from entering Ukraine for a period of three years.
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