Kirill Vyshinsky became executive director of Rossiya Segodnya

Exchanged in early September for Ukrainian sailors and director Oleg Sentsov, the editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, has been appointed executive director of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, reported Vedomosti . The press service of Rossiya Segodnya confirmed this information.

Vyshinsky spent more than a year in a Ukrainian pre-trial detention center after being detained in Kyiv on May 15, 2018. He was accused of treason and support for the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass, which threatened him with 15 years in prison. The Russian Foreign Ministry considered the detention related to Vyshinsky's professional activities as "arbitrariness", Vyshinsky himself renounced Ukrainian citizenship and turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin personally for help.

• In early September, an exchange of prisoners took place: Russia and Ukraine released 35 people each. The Russians were met in Moscow by the general director of Rossiya Segodnya, Dmitry Kiselev. Vyshinsky, after arriving in Moscow, said that he was ready to participate in the trial remotely.