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Anna Kurbatova, a journalist of Russia’s Channel One, has been expelled from Ukraine with an ensuing ban from entering the country for three years, Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) spokesperson Olena Hitlianska has said.

“Russian propagandist Anna Kurbatova, with regards of whom it had been decided on the forcible expulsion from Ukraine, crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border. She is barred from entering our state for three years,” Hitlianska said on Facebook on August 30.