The court granted the investigator's request. According to Russian media, this way the Ukrainian will be under arrest until January 13.

Let us remind you that Roman Sushchenko was detained in Russia in October 2016. According to Russian special services, a Ukrainian journalist is allegedly acting intelligence officer and collected secret data on the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Rosgvardia.

As reported URA-Inform, lawyer Mark Feigin said that the Russian authorities intend to implement the same scheme against the Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko as with Sharoiko in Belarus. They try to force the journalist to write down "confession in espionage".