Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed respective services of Ukraine to provide Russian journalist and Putin's vocal critic Arkady Babchenko and his family with 24/7 security.
"I greet the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) – this is a brilliant operation to protect the life of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko," Poroshenko wrote on Facebook on May 30 after an announcement that it was a staged "murder" of Babchenko.
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Day by day, Ukraine's law enforcement agencies "become stronger in counteracting Russian aggression and all manifestations of hybrid warfare in Ukraine," he wrote.
"Moscow is hardly likely to stop there – I have ordered that Arkady and his family be provided with 24-hour security," Poroshenko added.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist who was reported to have been shot dead in Kyiv, turned up alive at a news conference in Ukraine on May 30. His staged "murder" was a special operation conducted by the SBU.
