Poroshenko met with Babchenko

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with the Russian Politemigrant Journalist Arkady Babchnenko, the attempt on which was prevented by the SBU. A video of the president’s meeting with a journalist was published on the FB page Poroshenko. The meeting was also participated by the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko and the head of the SBU Vasily Gritsak.

“Today, millions of people celebrate Arkady Babchenko’s third birthday as the birthday of Ukraine, the birthday of the whole nation, which was extremely cool passing the examination for statehood,” the president said. “I saw my own eyes how people were cried and how happy they were when they heard Arkady. They were happy as for themselves.” Poroshenko thanked the Ukrainians for "showing indifference, they were ready to fight and act in order to preserve the country."

According to Poroshenko, the organizer of the murder - "a person who has a huge arsenal of weapons and has the opportunity to lay caches and organize terrorist acts against 30 people," he wanted to "show the inefficiency of power" and "to kill those who are afraid of the most."

The president noted that he knew about the staging of the murder. “I knew everything about this, but no one knew about it in the administration,” Poroshenko said.

The President of Ukraine ordered Babchenko and his family round -the -clock state protection.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the actions of the Ukrainian authorities "the promotion of the Russophobic lies" and "another anti -Russian provocation." "The Ukrainian authorities, apparently, cannot find another way to show their effectiveness on how to demonstrate a staged murder instead of investigating real crimes: the murders of O.A. Buzina, P.G. Sheremet and other journalists, as well as the alive residents of Odessa," the department said .

On Wednesday, the director of SBU Gritsak and Prosecutor General Lutsenko announced at a briefing that the attempt on Babchenko was a staging of the SBU. It turned out that the journalist is alive and well . He appeared at a briefing.

A month ago, the journalist said, the SBU informed him that they intended to kill him. The organizer had a photo of the passport of the emigrant. “Special services can have such information,” said Babchenko.

To expose the organizer, the SBU decided to stage the murder. As Lutsenko explained, a former member of the ATO, working with the Ukrainian special service, was proposed for the role of a direct performer. On Wednesday, the organizer of the assassination - citizen was stolen G. - detained; He is accused of preparing a terrorist attack. It is claimed that he received 40 thousand dollars from the Russian special services.

Babchenko remarked about his participation in the SBU operation, he did not inform either friends or even his wife. He apologized to them for it.

"Reporters without borders" condemned the staging of the murder of Babchenko. The Secretary General of the Organization Christopheus, said that he was relieved to learn that Babchenko was alive, but was disappointed with the actions of the SBU, which "play with the truth." “This does not help freedom of speech. One staging is enough to throw a shadow on all affairs about political murders,” the business said. “The state resorted to lies, albeit for a short period.”

“The fact that Babchenko is alive is the best news. It would always be so. It’s a pity that in other cases the masquerade did not work out. The fact that the propaganda effect was laid in history is obvious,” the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that he had seen reports of staging the murder of Babchenko, but does not have any information about this. “I don’t know who accuses, what, what, and so on. I can’t say anything,” the official explained.