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10-03-2016, 03:25 PM
MOSCOW: Russia´s FSB security service on Monday said it had detained a Ukrainian journalist for spying, prompting Kiev to call for his immediate release.
Journalist Roman Sushchenko -- who has worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform since 2002 -- was detained in Moscow "while conducting espionage activities," Russia´s FSB told Interfax news agency.
Russia´s security service said that Sushchenko was working for Ukrainian military intelligence and "collecting state secrets... that could damage the defence capability of the state if leaked abroad."
Sushchenko, Ukrinform´s Paris correspondent, was detained on September 30 upon arriving in Moscow on holiday, the Ukrainian agency said.
Russian lawyer Mark Feigin, who has defended a number of Ukrainian citizens in Russia in high-profile cases, told AFP that Sushchenko was being held at Moscow´s Lefortovo prison.
Kiev has called for Sushchenko´s immediate release and on Russian authorities to allow him to receive Ukrainian consular assistance.
"We demand that our consular ******rs be immediately provided with access to Roman," Ukrainian foreign ministry spokeswoman Mariana Betsa told AFP, stressing that minister Pavlo Klimkin was set to address Sushchenko´s detention at a Council of Europe meeting on Monday.
Moscow´s relations with Kiev are in shambles over Russia´s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
The conflict has also seen an unprecedented number of espionage and treason cases reach trial in Russia.
A Russian court last year sentenced an elderly Ukrainian citizen to six years in prison for allegedly attempting to smuggle sensitive missile defence tech**logy out of the country.
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Journalist Roman Sushchenko -- who has worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform since 2002 -- was detained in Moscow "while conducting espionage activities," Russia´s FSB told Interfax news agency.
Russia´s security service said that Sushchenko was working for Ukrainian military intelligence and "collecting state secrets... that could damage the defence capability of the state if leaked abroad."
Sushchenko, Ukrinform´s Paris correspondent, was detained on September 30 upon arriving in Moscow on holiday, the Ukrainian agency said.
Russian lawyer Mark Feigin, who has defended a number of Ukrainian citizens in Russia in high-profile cases, told AFP that Sushchenko was being held at Moscow´s Lefortovo prison.
Kiev has called for Sushchenko´s immediate release and on Russian authorities to allow him to receive Ukrainian consular assistance.
"We demand that our consular ******rs be immediately provided with access to Roman," Ukrainian foreign ministry spokeswoman Mariana Betsa told AFP, stressing that minister Pavlo Klimkin was set to address Sushchenko´s detention at a Council of Europe meeting on Monday.
Moscow´s relations with Kiev are in shambles over Russia´s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
The conflict has also seen an unprecedented number of espionage and treason cases reach trial in Russia.
A Russian court last year sentenced an elderly Ukrainian citizen to six years in prison for allegedly attempting to smuggle sensitive missile defence tech**logy out of the country.
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