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Mark Feygin, the defense lawyer for the Ukrainian journalist of Ukrinform, Roman Sushchenko, has told UNIAN he obtained permission to visit his client in a Moscow-based pre-trial detention center.
"I got a permission, now I am entering the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center right now to see Roman," said Feygin.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the FSB has detained in Moscow a correspondent of Ukrinform news agency Roman Sushchenko, labeling him a "colonel of the Ukrainian military intelligence who had been purposefully collecting classified information on the activities of the armed forces and the National Guard".
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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has stated that Sushchenko has no relation to it.
Mark Feygin October 3 said that the defense has appealed the court's decision on Sushchenko’s arrest.