Moscow outraged by incidents involving Russian journalists in Ukraine
MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry is outraged by a growing number of incidents involving Russian journalists in Ukraine and has once again urged OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic to take a nondiscriminatory approach toward what Moscow sees as Kyiv's reprisals against journalists.
"We are outraged by a growing number of incidents involving Russian journalists working on Ukrainian territory, which international structures and the human rights community are continuing to ignore," the ministry said in a statement published on its website on Friday.
In particular, Moscow insisted that correspondent Yulia Pustoplesnova and cameraman Mikhail Pudovkin from the Lifenews TV channel were abducted and humiliated in Donetsk, after which the journalists were brought to the Ukrainian-Russian border and expelled from Ukraine.
"In addition to this S. Chirich, a producer from the Central Television program of the NTV television channel, has been detained, and Ukrainian border guards also refused to admit VGTRK special correspondent A. Rogatkin," it said.
"We once again have to draw OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic's attention to the need for a prompt and nondiscriminatory response to mass reprisals in relation to media workers, which are accompanying the military operations being conducted by the Kyiv regime in the southeastern part of Ukraine," it said.
