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Ukraine raids Kiev offices of Russian state media


KIEV: Ukraine’s security service raided the Kiev offices of Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday, detaining one journalist who was accused of treason.
The searches took place with relations between Moscow and Kiev already extremely strained over Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and accusations that it fuelled a rebel conflict in eastern Ukraine that has cost some 10,000 lives.
The raids and arrest came on the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a bridge providing the first direct road connection from southern Russia to the Crimean peninsula.
Olena Gitlyanska, a spokeswoman for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said Russian-controlled …read more

Source: theSun

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