The head of the portal RIA "News" of Ukraine Kirill Vyshinsky is sent from Kiev to Kherson, where he will be chosen a measure of restraint. The lawyer Vyshinsky told about this to the agency. A Russian journalist was sent to Kherson, since it is there that the Ukrainian prosecutor's office of the so-called Autonomous Republic of Crimea is located, which deals with his case. Earlier, the media reported that in the offices of the Russian news agency the SBU conducted 5 searches. Vyshinsky, who has the citizenship of Russia and Ukraine, is accused of high treason: he is suspected of supporting the proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. SBU deputy head Viktor Kononenko said that Vyshinsky allegedly received monthly from the Russian Federation 53 thousand. euro for their anti-Ukrainian subversive work. "The money came from the territory of Serbia. Here Vyshinsky distributed them between the structures and persons involved in illegal activities, "Kononenko quoted Gordonua. com. Wife Kirill Vyshinsky, Irina, told on the First Channel that her husband because of health problems can not do without drugs. She added that she does not know anything about the condition of her husband. The searches also took place in the apartments of the correspondent of RIA Novosti Lyudmila Lysenko and the head of the agency in Ukraine Andrei Borodin. Both of them were summoned for questioning to the SBU. After that, Borodin managed to contact the editorial office and told that after many hours of investigative actions, he was never charged. Editor-in-chief of RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan called actions of Kiev revenge for the Crimean bridge. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated that Kiev's actions against the Russian news agency are arbitrary. The Russian embassy sent a note of protest to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry demanding to stop violence against journalists. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova commented on what happened on her Facebook page: "I appeal to my colleagues from the State Department:

do not shy away before anyone who has lost any idea of ??the human rights of the authorities of Ukraine, and in a strict voice, as you know how to chastise everyone else, demand immediate release representatives of the press. "The community of professional journalists. Fred Brown, deputy chairman of the Committee on Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), said that Kiev pursues Russian journalists, as the Ukrainian authorities do not like the information they publish.