MOSCOW, January 31 (Sputnik) — Two Russian LifeNews journalists have been deported from Ukraine and prohibited to enter the country for five years, the adviser to Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) head wrote on his Facebook page Saturday.
"I inform you that the citizens of the Russian Federation, LifeNews journalists, were forcibly returned from Ukrainian territory through the checkpoint "Synkivka" on the Ukrainian-Russian border in [Ukrainian] Chernihiv region. With a subsequent prohibition to enter the territory of Ukraine over the next five years," Markian Lubkivskyi wrote.
On Friday, the SBU detained LifeNews TV correspondent Yelizaveta Khramtsova and camerawoman Natalya Kalysheva in Kiev.
This is not the first case in which Russian and other foreign journalists have been detained or attacked in Ukraine.
In the most recent incident on January 1, LifeNews reporter Zhanna Karpenko and her cameraman were attacked by masked men in Kiev.
