The head of the First channel, NTV and RTR asked Bolotova to release Ukrainian correspondents
The head of the three largest Russian television organizations Oleg Dobrodeyev, Konstantin Ernst and Vladimir Kulistikov has sent a letter to the leader of the Lugansk national Republic Valery Bolotova with an appeal to help in the liberation of the Ukrainian correspondents " Gromadske TV, apply for it all their own authority.
" regardless of the position of the media, political views themselves correspondents shall be ensured the right to fulfill their professional duties ", - is reported in the document, reports RIA " Novosti ". Yesterday in the manual LNR told that the Ukrainian TV channel journalist Anastasia Stanko and cameraman Ilya Beskorovainy caught by militia Lugansk national Republic on suspicion of espionage in favor of the Ukrainian army. We emphasize that the majority of correspondents, and among them Russian should now work in Ukraine with risk for life. They kept coming under fire from the Ukrainian security services. On the first day of the week, June 30th, in Donetsk, Ukrainian troops shot and killed a cameraman of the First channel Anatoly Clan and blew up the car of the TV channel LifeNews, and on July 17 artillery strike led to the death of workers VGTRK Igor Igor and Anton Voloshin. On Tuesday, the journalist and the cameraman of the TV channel REN-TV were ontogeny in Lugansk region, one kilometre from the Russian-Ukrainian border. In addition, Russian correspondents several times been arrested from the participants of the military operation in Kyiv. On Tuesday, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko gave the order to have an impact for the safe operation of correspondents in the country's Eastern regions. He also ordered the security forces to release as if seized by militia correspondents Ukrainian " Public television ".
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