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A producer for RT’s RUPTLY video agency has been ordered to leave Ukraine after local authorizes learned that she holds both American and Russian citizenships. The journalist says she has been forced out of the country because of her “Russian passport”.

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Traffic on the major regional road has been halted for the past few days as local activists have been protesting against the mobilization of the Ukrainian army. They blocked the highway with benches, flowerbeds and vehicles, not letting any transport, except ambulances and emergency services, pass through.

RUPTLY’s producer has been at the scene with her equipment – camera and tripod which had labels of RT Ruptly.

According to RT’s official statement, one of the Ukrainian journalists, who was also working at the scene, noticed labels of RT RUPTLY and started questioning her and filming with his video camera. This attracted attention of other reporters, who called the police. Security forces arrived along with Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) representatives.

Alina has been given until August 4 to leave the country. As she has told RT shortly after the incident, she hoped to catch a plane on Saturday morning and come home.

Eprimian explained she was covering a small protest in Western Ukraine, when another journalist noticed a little RUPTLY sticker on her camera and started shouting “you are Russia Today!” The crowd of around 7 journalists surrounded her and began asking questions.

Then, some 15 minutes later, “3 policemen came and three officials from the national security service of Ukraine.” Eprimian claims that after examining her documents, “they did not believe that [a copy of] my American passport was real.” The Ukrainian officials followed Eprimian to the hotel to examine the original document.

“I did not want to be questioned like that. I did not understand the reason for my questioning,” Eprimian says pointing out that overall the Ukrainian authorities acted “pretty civil.”

“At one point they did tell me that if I was not going to sit down, they were going to handcuff me to the chair,” when she tried to resist questioning, she added.

You haven't shown any logic to justify your conclusions.

I could counter your claim by saying "since some guys in Russia are losing a lot of money, obviously they must be desperate to stop those losses, using any means they can".

Russian journalist Andrey Stenin, who went missing in eastern Ukraine last week, has been arrested by Ukraine’s security service, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said. The photographer is accused of aiding local militia.

“[Stenin] has been arrested by our security service. He was present at tortures and killings in Shakhtyorsk [a town in Donetsk region]. The photographs, first depicting a still living, wounded soldier, then the same soldier dead, have caused outrage around the world,” Geraschenko said, answering a question about the Russian photographer in an interview with Latvia's Baltkom radio.

Accusations are 'artificial, ridiculous' - journalist's boss

RIA Novosti's general director, Dmitry Kiselyov, said that Kiev’s accusations were “artificial and ridiculous.”

“The good news is that Andrey is alive. The bad news is that the Ukrainian authorities confirmed after a week that he has been,” he added, saying that this time was presumably needed to make up a criminal case against the journalist.

“Andrey was doing [the same work] he had been doing earlier, particularly in Syria and Egypt. The only difference is the attitude toward journalists in Ukraine, which is much harsher, even brutal, than where Andrey worked earlier.”

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) voiced concern over the safety of the Russian photographer on Monday.

“If he has been detained in Ukraine then we appeal for whoever is holding him to release him immediately. He is a journalist, not a soldier, and as such is entitled to move freely and report the truth without the threat of intimidation, violence or detention,” said IFJ President Jim Boumelha, according to the organization’s statement.

The fact is that the Ukrainian army is targeting all those journalists who are not on their side. For example, Graham Philips (British national) was recently banned from entering Ukraine, after being arrested by the Ukrainian army.

Recently freed Crimean journalists Yevgeniya Koroleva and Maxim Vasilenko said Wednesday that they tried to obtain some information about missing Rossiya Segodnya photographer Andrei Stenin (#freeAndrew) while being detained by Right Sector activists, but the militants said they did not know where he was.

“The car had been shot up and burnt on a highway in the vicinity of Donetsk,” he said in a statement. “The autopsy results came back this morning. He was indeed in that car – the 33-year-old young man, a brilliant professional, someone who cared.”

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The unit that carried out the attack was also using a tank, according to the investigators.

More than 10 cars containing peaceful civilians had been shot up. The contents of the vehicles, including the civilians' belongings, had come into Ukrainian posession.

Nothing new under the sun. All countries censor their news to certain extend.

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After the war began in Ukraine - the media lies every day. Ukrainians have to watch foreign TV channels to find out the truth. Government, through the media intentionally incites ethnic conflict

The fact is that the Ukrainian army is targeting all those journalists who are not on their side. For example, Graham Philips (British national) was recently banned from entering Ukraine, after being arrested by the Ukrainian army.

RT is stupid kremlin propaganda channel, so no surprise.

You are right. All russian channels are sponsored by Kremlin to show propaganda. But it doesn't changes fact, that their journalist was killed.

Freedom of press in [anywhere] - not