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The police have detained three reporters of the TVi Channel near the president's residence in Mezhyhirya in Kyiv region, reads a posting on the TV channel's Web site.

According to TVi, the reporters are at Vyshgorod District Police Station now.

Journalist Tetiana Shustrova, one of the detainees, reported the detention of the channel’s employees, who were working on a news report for the channel.

Apart from Shustrova, director Viktor Borets and cameraman Anton Kviten were detained by the police.

As reported, activists of the Democratic Alliance Party were detained in Mezhyhirya in early April.