Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have compulsory repatriated to the Russian Federation journalist of the Russian NTV TV-channel Viyacheslav Nemyshev who was detained the day before in Kyiv.
Press service of the SBU has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
After conducting all legal procedures required by law, at 4 a.m. the SBU compulsory returned Nemyshev into the territory of Russia through the Senkova checkpoint for activity harming national interests of Ukraine.
Nemyshev has been banned from entry to Ukraine for three years.
In particular, the SBU established that in the period from spring 2016 to autumn 2017 Nemyshev worked in the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by terrorist forces.
He prepared a series of falsehoods for mass media, anti-Ukrainian materials containing false data ordered by his Russia supervisors, that served in the interest of militant terrorist forces to justify their illegal activity through publications in the informational field.
The SBU informed of this fact representatives of international and domestic public organizations engaged in protection of human rights.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on October 4, the SBU seized accreditation to work in the Donetsk People's Republic from Nemyshev.
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