"In the morning today [on April 14], a TV journalist crew from Channel Mir24, which is part of Russia's international broadcasting company Mir, were refused entry into Ukraine at the checkpoint of Vystupovychi on the border with Belarus," spokesperson for the State Border Service of Ukraine Oleh Slobodian told UNIAN on Thursday.
According to him, four Mir24 journalists who are citizens of the Republic of Belarus said during a passport control interview that they were going to the Ukrainian town of Pripyat to shoot a film dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster.
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