Ukraine has barred a few dozen reporters, including three BBC journalists, from entering the country as an unspecified security threat.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko late on Wednesday signed a sanctions list barring nearly 400 individuals from entering Ukraine, including BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg and producer Emma Wells, both British, and Russian cameraman Anton Chicherov.
This is the first sanctions list against Russia and foreign individuals that Kyiv has introduced since a conflict broke out in April 2014 in eastern Ukraine, claiming more than 8,000 lives so far.
The decree which was published on the president’s website said the reporters and …read more
Source: Voice of America
