MOSCOW: Russia’s FSB security service on Monday said it had detained a Ukrainian journalist for spying, prompting Kiev to call for his immediate release.
Journalist Roman Sushchenko — who has worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform since 2002 — was detained in Moscow “while conducting espionage activities,” Russia’s FSB told Interfax news agency.
Russia’s security service said that Sushchenko was working for Ukrainian military intelligence and “collecting state secrets … that could damage the defence capability of the state if leaked abroad.”
Sushchenko, Ukrinform’s Paris correspondent, was detained on Sept 30 upon arriving in Moscow on holiday, the Ukrainian agency said.
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Source: theSun
