Ukraine’s security service raided the Kyiv offices of Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency yesterday, detaining one journalist who was accused of treason.The searches took place with relations between Moscow and Kyiv already extremely strained over Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and accusations that it fueled a rebel conflict in eastern Ukraine that has cost some 10,000 lives.The raids and arrest came on the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a bridge providing the first direct road connection from southern Russia to the Crimean peninsula.Olena Gitlyanska, a spokeswoman for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said that Russian-controlled media …read more
Source: Gulf times
