Russia’s TV journalist Anna Kurbatova, of the national broadcaster Channel 1, will be deported to Russia, Ukrainian security service SBU spokeswoman Yelena Gitlyanskaya said on Wednesday, APA reported citing TASS.
"Russian propagandist Anna Kurbatova will be compelled to return to Russia. Ukraine is a state ruled by law. At the moment all necessary documents are being readied for her official expulsion," Gitlyanskaya said in Facebook.
"The same will happen to everybody who may take the liberty of defaming Ukraine," she added.
Channel 1 said earlier on Wednesday its journalist Anna Kurbatova may have been abducted by SBU agents in Kiev. Currently her fate is unknown. The Russian Journalists’ Union has issued an appeal to the OSCE and other international organizations over Kurbatova’s disappearance in Kiev.
Kurbatova was born in Stavropol. Her latest seven reports aired on Channel 1 concerned the situation in Ukraine. On the eve of her abduction she filmed a report on the persecution of journalists in Ukraine. Several days before that Channel 1 broadcast her report about the military parade held on Ukraine’s Independence Day.
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Anna Kurbatova, a reporter with Russia’s Channel One, was kidnapped in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Wednesday, APAreported citing Sputnik.
There is no additional information about the incident.
Anna Kurbatova’s name was in Ukraine’s famous Mirotvorets (Peacemaker) website.
The Russian journalist is reportedly accused of "manipulating publicly important information and participation in anti-Ukrainian propaganda" when reporting from a military parade in Kiev, dedicated to Ukraine's Independence Day last week.
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