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The SBU rejected the accusations of the recruitment of the RIA Novosti correspondent in Lithuania Irina Vysokovich. “No one recruited her: they conducted an interview with her, as a result of which it turned out that she was not going here with a journalistic, but with a propaganda purpose. For this she received a large amount of money,” the UNN press service quoted the department.

Vysorovich, a citizen of Ukraine with a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, came to Ukraine to cover the court to extend the arrest director of RIA Novosti -Ukraine Kirill Vyshinsky, accused of state reception. On June 1, at the entrance to the meetings in the Kherson Court of Appeal, it was detained by the SBU officers and took it to the special services department. She stated that they tried to recruit her.

The Russian Foreign Ministry protested about what happened. "This incident is another confirmation that the freedom of expression in Ukraine ceased to exist. Direct pressure, threats, provocations of special services, physical reprisals and political judges are the formats of the interaction of the Ukrainian regime with the journalistic community," the department said.

"We demand to immediately release K. Vyshinsky and remove all the accusations from him. We urge specialized international structures and the international community to properly respond to the situation with I. Vysovich," concluded in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On the eve of Vysokovich, she said that in the SBU she was asked about the first Baltic Canal for several hours - the Latvian branch of the Russian Channel Channel, with which she collaborated earlier. Then, Vysokovich claims, she was allegedly forced to sign the paper about the consent to cooperate with the SBU and provide information about the employees of RIA Novosti. Then, the agency’s employee claims, she was forced to say that she had no complaints about the SBU, after which she was released.

On June 1, the courtleft Vyshinsky in custody . At the hearing, a propagandist who has Russian and Ukrainian passports said that he was refusing Ukrainian citizenship, andasked for help in liberation from Vladimir Putin. By law, Vyshinsky cannot get out of citizenship, as he is under investigation.