Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities did not bother to officially inform family members of the head of the RIA Novosti Ukraina portal Cyril Wyszynski of his detention, which took place on May 15 in Kiev. This was told by his wife Irina Vyshinskaya. According to the woman, five people in civilian clothes were put in a car park by her husband in a car and taken away to an unknown destination. She herself was in Moscow at that time and found out about everything from Internet sources, she said in an interview with RT. Vyshinskaya noted that she did not have the opportunity to communicate with her husband, and added that she can not tell anything about any threats to the journalist, since it is not customary in their house to discuss working problems. The journalist's wife stressed that she still does not know what her husband was detained for, since he does not understand how the concepts of "journalism" and "state treasury" are related,. Earlier it became known that the Kherson court arrested the head of RIA Novosti Ukraina for two months. Such a decision of the court caused outrage among Russian state and public figures. In particular, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Information Policies, Information Technologies and Communications Vladimir Krupennikov in an interview with RT called the arrest of Vyshinsky a psychosis against the background of Russophobia. In his opinion, it is not possible to name the actions of the Ukrainian authorities adequate. "There is a violation of all conceivable and unthinkable norms. They are trying to shut up in every possible way the freedom of speech, "the MP stressed and added that any dissent is seen today in Ukraine as a betrayal. Director of the Progressive Policy Foundation Oleg Bondarenko believes that the "Vyshinsky case" is a real war with alternative opinion in the country. "This is a real political provocation, another attack on freedom of speech in Ukraine ... This is an open war with an alternative opinion and an example of how they are being cracked down in Ukraine today with dissent," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.. The general director of the MIA "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev, emphasizing the absurdity of the prosecution Vyshinsky in the state treason, suggested that the journalist will be kept in harsh conditions, writes RIA Novosti news agency.. The head of the agency noted that in Kherson prison "such a center has been organized to receive those whom the current Ukrainian regime considers" the militants of Donbass ".

In the meantime, the monitoring mission of the United Nations on human rights in Ukraine worried about the growth in the number of attacks against journalists in the Nezalezhnaya region since the beginning of the year, RIA Novosti reports.. The official representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, noted that the mission "carefully examines all cases where freedom of expression or freedom of the media are under threat", and calls on the Kiev authorities to ensure the punishment of the perpetrators of these crimes.