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 Russian journalists from Forbes and Russia Today have been denied entry in Ukraine. Forbes reported on its website that its correspondents Pavel Sedakov and Artyom Goloshchapov, who were going to Dnepropetrovsk for work, were denied entry in Ukraine by Ukrainian border guards.

 “The journalists were put off the train en route from Moscow to Dnipropetrovsk at the Kazachya Lopan station and were sent to Belgorod on the first train heading to Russia. The decision on the denial of entry to Ukraine obtained by Sedakov states that the journalist does not have enough funding and the purpose of his visit was not confirmed, the magazine reported on its website.

The border guards told the journalists they will be barred from entering Ukraine for three years if they try to cross the border again, the report says.

A cameraman with the video agency RUPTLY, which is a structure of Russia Today, was also denied entry in Ukraine on April 7.

“Officially, the border guards said he did not have enough funding to stay in the country. [Journalist Andrei] Ivanov offered to provide a bank statement, but his offer was ignored,” he Russia Today press service reported.

The report says the border guards had taken the journalist’s passport, promising to return it after he returned to Moscow, and put him on a plane to Moscow.

“Andrei Ivanov has reported on events in Ukraine and Crimea as a member of the RUPTLY team for the past few months, but the video agency’s cameramen did not have any problem entering the territory of the country before,” the press service said.

This is not the first time Russian journalists were denied entry into Ukraine and were deported to Russia. Similar things have happened to correspondents with the television channels REN TV and NTV and the newspaper Kommersant.