MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Correspondent Antonio Pampliega is among the individuals targeted by the new blacklist Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko approved on Wednesday.
"No, for now we are not going to protest in any way," the newspaper told Sputnik.
Ukraine expanded its sanctions list on Wednesday to include around a hundred legal entities and 388 individuals, mostly state officials, politicians and journalists, based in Russia and other countries. The sanctions stipulate year-long entry bans and asset freezes.
More than 40 journalists and bloggers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Israel, Latvia and Russia, were targeted by the new restrictions.
Journalists of several countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, were later removed from the list.