According to propagandists, they were not asked at the Ukrainian customs about the purpose of the visit to Kyiv. Snapshot The film crew of Russian Defense Ministry’s propaganda TV channel Zvezda have arrived in Kyiv.
The crew turned out to be the first Russian journalists to visit Kyiv after an “invitation” voiced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Normandy Four Summit in Paris. An unofficial entry ban for Russian journalists in Ukraine has been in force since 2014.
“Our film crew is flying to Kyiv. Mr. President Volodymyr Zelensky had invited journalists at a press conference. We have decided to check whether he keeps his promises, whether they will let us across the border. Our camera man is next to me – he has gear and a mic with our logo,” said Zvezda correspondent Diana Sirazi.
The mutual ban on air traffic between Russia and Ukraine is still in force. It has been operating since October 2015, so the propagandists flew via Minsk. Read also Russian TV propagandist Ernst on fake MH17 footage: “We made a mistake” Ukrainian State Border Guard Service said in a comment that the said persons were not on the stop list.
“There is a clear procedure, in particular regarding the crossing of foreigners into Ukraine. There is no such separate category as ‘journalists’. There were no instructions from law enforcement regarding this group. When they crossed the border, there were no established data that they were journalists with the Russian media,” spokesman Andriy Demchenko told Censor.net.
Also, border guards had no confirmed data on whether the group had visited the occupied Crimea. “Other law enforcement agencies can take a clear position regarding the entry ban if they have such information and provide it to the border guards,” Demchenko added.
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Under Poroshenko these visits would not be possible.
Let them come to Ukraine and let them see what freedom is all about…
We will see if the Moskali can behave in a civilized country. Or rather, how long, they can behave in a civilized country….
This smells like a setup to me. Wouldn’t surprise me if these “journalists” were attacked by “Right Sector” with strange Russian accents.
Screw it, arrest them and use them for hostage exchanges!
It will be interesting to see what their orders are and how they are received by anyone they interview in the street who knows they are a russian station.
It will either be a lesson in normality or twisted to show that Ukrainians are fascist xenophobic russian haters.
Perhaps it should have been a condition that they were escorted and all content approved before release. I am sure that would be the case in vatnikistan.
According to her, the border service of Ukraine did not even ask the purpose of their visit letting Russian propagandists into the country.
“Well, we are in the center of Kyiv! I am on the Maidan. To be true, it is not yet clear whether all the Russian journalists were opened the gate and for how long?”, – the Zvezda correspondent reports from Kyiv.
As previously reported, Zvezda is a television company of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Its reports from Ukraine repeatedly distorted the real picture.