{"id":97910,"date":"2019-12-13T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=74361"},"modified":"2019-12-15T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:23:21","slug":"74361-propagandist-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/74361-propagandist-channel","title":{"rendered":"Television crew of Russia\u2019s propagandist channel on visit to Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>At the press conference of December 10 held after the Normandy summit in Paris President Volodymyr Zelenskyi encouraged Russian media to come to Ukraine \u2013 to see what is actually going on in the country. Three days later, on December 12 a crew of \u201cZvezda\u201d television channel of the Russian Federation Defense Ministry set foot in Kyiv. We take a look at what it means and what the civil society\u2019s and authorities\u2019 reaction is. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What did Zelenskyi say at the presser? <\/strong>At the press briefing in Paris that followed the Normandy format meeting President Zelenskyi invited Russian propagandists to come to the contact line in Donbas to see in their own eyes what is going on there. He said: \u201cYou should come, I will guide you in person. Just make it real, not like your fellows, there\u2019s Solovyov (Vladimir Solovyov, Russian propagandist \u2013 UCMC) who\u2019s joyfully talking from Moscow about what is going on. I always say, you should come directly to see what is going on here, palp it with your feet, arms and eyes. No need to worry, they won\u2019t dirty their Brioni shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What happened next? <\/strong>What seemed to be a joke at the press-conference very quickly turned to be true. In Russia they took the invitation literally. The TV crew of the \u201cZvezda\u201d channel of the Russian Federation Defense Ministry was let enter Ukraine. \u201cZvezda\u201d correspondent Diana Sirazi and cameraman Aleksandr Stolerov flew to Kyiv following the invitation by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe TV crew of \u2018Zvezda\u2019 turned to be among the first Russian journalists who were let come to Kyiv after the invitation by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi made at the Normandy Four summit in Paris on December 10. The unofficial entry ban to Ukraine was valid for Russian reporters from 2014,\u201d the statement on the TV channel\u2019s web site reads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diana Sirazi said they came upon the invitation of the Ukrainian President to \u201ccheck if he keeps his promises and if they are let enter at the customs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She ended her video on Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. \u201cYet it is unclear if the doors are now open for all Russian journalists and how long it will last,\u201d Sirazi added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reaction of the civil society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Civil society organizations and independent media including Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Internews, \u201cUkrainian Prism\u201d, Euromaidan Press, StopFake, \u201cUnion of families of Kremlin\u2019s political prisoners\u201d issued a statement that strongly condemns the recent intervention by President Zelenskyi in which he invited representatives of the Russian state propagandist media to come to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/ua\/74352-zayava-predstavnikiv-gromadyanskogo-suspilstva-shhodo-vizitu-propagandistskogo-rosijskogo-kanalu-zvezda-v-ukrayinu\">statement<\/a>\u00a0was published on UCMC\u2019s web site. \u201cResulting from the invitation, representatives of \u2018Zvezda\u2019 television channel notorious for spreading numerous fakes and hate speech have come to Kyiv today. Television channel \u2018Zvezda\u2019 is an information unit of the Defense Ministry of the aggressor state. The visit of its journalists is thus a threat to our state information security,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe emphasize that visits of Russian propagandists to Ukraine will lead to reinforcement of information aggression that has been one of the key components of Kremlin\u2019s hybrid war against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Commentary of Ukraine\u2019s Security Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security Service of Ukraine said they are observing the situation with the propagandists of \u201cZvezda\u201d television channel: \u201cWe are observing, if there are violations, we\u2019ll apply legal measures,\u201d the agency\u2019s spokeswoman Olena Hitlyanska said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said \u201cZvezda\u201d correspondent Diana Sirazi and cameraman Aleksandr Stolerov entered Ukraine as regular travelers not specifying they were journalists. The State Border Guard Service Ukraine in a comment to \u201cUkrainska Pravda\u201d confirmed that the Russian citizens in question crossed into Ukraine as regular foreign nationals. The State Border Guard Service elaborated that they had not received any additional instructions from other law enforcement agencies that would ban the persons in question from entry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLiga.net\u201d quotes its source at the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine saying that the channel\u2019s crew entered Ukraine on a \u201cprivate visit\u201d, they said they were visiting their relatives. Instead a source of \u201cUkrainska Pravda\u201d at the Security Service of Ukraine said that the journalists had been identified: \u201cThey will not be let enter Ukraine for the second time\u201d. Other sources said that the visit is a deliberate provocation by Russian media in response to Volodymyr Zelenskyi\u2019s words pronounced in Paris. A similar opinion was voiced by an unnamed source of \u201cLiga.net\u201d in a law enforcement agency: \u201cThey are provoking. Zelenskyi invited (them) to come and see Donbas. Agents of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation were first to come to stage a provocation so that we throw them out immediately and thus refute what the President said.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the press conference of December 10 held after the Normandy summit in Paris President Volodymyr Zelenskyi encouraged Russian media to come to Ukraine \u2013 to see what is actually going on in the country. 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