They try to force the journalist to write down "confession in espionage". On this Monday, November 27, on the air of one of the Ukrainian television channels, the lawyer of journalist Mark Feigin.

According to him, his client wants to make him admit that he is an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, as was done in Minsk.

At the same time Feigin assured that he was trying to deprive him of the status of a lawyer, and if it was done, it is difficult to predict how the situation will develop.

Recall journalist Ukrinform was detained in Moscow on September 30, 2016. He was accused of espionage.

As reported URA-Inform, representatives of law enforcement bodies of Belarus stated that the detained in Belarus Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sharoiko was collecting information on such objects as the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Information of the country, the embassy and military facilities of Russia in the country. Throughout the year, he and his so-called agent network, had to study these objects, establish and develop acquaintances and receive information from them.