MOSCOW — Ukraine has barred a few dozen reporters, including three BBC journalists, from entering the country as an unspecified security threat.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko late on Wednesday signed a sanctions list barring nearly 300 individuals from entering Ukraine.
The decree which was published on the president’s website said the three BBC journalists — two Britons and one Russian — and other reporters and media executives presented an unspecified “threat to national interests, national security, sovereignty or territorial integrity.”
It did not specify why the BBC was singled out but a spokesman for the presidential administration said late Wednesday night th…Keep on …read more
Source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer