Journalists of Russian TV channels LifeNews and NTV were not allowed to enter Ukraine

Correspondent of the program "Segodnia" of the Russian NTV channel, Inna Osipova, was not allowed to enter Ukraine on February 25. She was stopped in the Borispol airport and sent back to Moscow on the next day.

Other journalists of Russian channel LifeNews, Zhanna Karpenko and Oleksandra Ulianova, were also not allowed to enter Ukraine, and were forced to stay in the airport’s customs area, even though they were summoned to the court in Kyiv. The journalists were not informed if they are banned from entering Ukraine permanently, or about any other details.