Film crews from Ukrainian propaganda channels are touring Crimea
Ukrainian journalists from the STB and Hromadske television channels arrived in Crimea for a "tour." Both media outlets, as is well known, reject the results of the referendum on the peninsula and support the punitive operation against Donbas. As a reminder, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov recently issued strict instructions censoring the information policy of Ukrainian television.
After a short walk in the center of Simferopol, the guests from Ukraine were detained by the police to check their documents. STB correspondent Irina Romaliyskaya stated this on her social network page.
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The check lasted more than an hour, after which the journalists were released, but began to worry about surveillance.
“The IMEI of phones was rewritten “just for reporting purposes,” “sanctions are needed for wiretapping and tracking,” they said... Well, let’s not get lost,” Romaliyskaya ironically says.
Another member of the STB film crew, Vitaly Kikot, noted that Crimeans were actively interested in journalists about events in Ukraine: “Guys, how are you there? They say that rolling blackouts are just around the corner and general devastation is upon you there. Are the streets calm? Otherwise the radicals are not asleep.”
It is noteworthy that the Ukrainian journalists had permission to work in Russian Crimea - they officially received accreditation from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Film crews from Ukrainian propaganda channels are touring Crimea.