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RFE/RL: Ukraine summons Russian consul over journalist’s arrest

Published Oct. 6, 2016 at 3:43 pm

Ukrainian journalists hold placards depicting their colleague Roman Sushchenko during a protest to call for the release of a Ukrainian journalist detained in Moscow for spying, on October 6, 2016 in front of Russian embassy in Kyiv.

Photo by AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY

Ukraine has summoned the Russian consul in Kyiv after Moscow detained one of its state media journalists for alleged espionage.

Roman Sushchenko, a Paris-based correspondent of the Ukrinform news agency, was detained in Moscow on Sept. 30 and later charged with espionage.