Moscow sees Kiev’s decision to ban Russian TV channels from broadcasting in Ukraine as an openly political step, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.
“Unfortunately, I have to say that the Ukrainian leadership keeps ignoring appeals by different international organisations and journalists’ unions, and augments efforts to maintain tough administrative control over media, openly preventing an objective coverage of events in the country,” the diplomat said.
“We see this as being at variance with rules of international law and as an openly political decision,” Lukashevich added.
“This testifies to the fact that Ukraine’s security agencies consistently deprive the population of an opportunity to get an alternative point of view on developments in the country,” he said.
Source: ItarTASS