The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized Ukraine for the expulsion of the Channel One journalist, and the West for its silence
The Russian Foreign Ministry classifies the SBU’s actions against the Channel One correspondent as “kidnapping.”
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Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova told reporters about this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There’s no other way to describe it when, in the middle of the day’s work, people come up, take away your phone and don’t let you call either your family or your employer. Then for several hours the person disappears from the information field. Only under enormous pressure from the public, government agencies of the Russian Federation and colleagues is scant information given that the journalist was detained by the SBU,” Zakharova said.
The diplomat called the assessment of Kurbatova’s activities as “posing a danger to Ukraine” as a manifestation of censorship. She criticized the silence of Western politicians on this issue.
“It was shocking that we did not hear from a single official foreign representative qualifying Kyiv’s actions. We see with what reverence the area of human rights is treated in various countries. Why is there no reaction against Russian journalists? This is not the first case with Russian journalists in Ukraine. The time has come to draw not neat, but systematic conclusions,” Zakharova said.
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