Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, disclosed the activities of a network of media structures controlled by the Russian Federation. As reported in the social network Facebook speaker SBU Yelena Gitlianskaya, now law enforcement officers conduct investigative actions in the office of RIA Novosti-Ukraine ".

According to her, it was established that Russia used media structures as part of a hybrid information war against Ukraine. Also, the SBU speaker specified that searches are taking place in the office of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, located in the center of Kiev,. As told Gitlyanskaya law enforcement officers detained in the capital of the head of "RIA Novosti-Ukraine" Kirill Vyshinsky.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin promises retaliatory measures in connection with the searches of the office of RIA Novosti Ukraina in Kiev and the detention of the head of the agency Kirill Vyshinsky.

This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Russian media reports.

"Measures of reciprocity, of course, will be accepted, but in order to speak something concrete, we must first obtain more detailed information. So far, we only know that there are taking forceful actions against the Russian media, measures to restrict the freedom of our journalists, because they do not communicate, and this is enough for a hard condemnation, "said Peskov.