The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has expelled Russian NTV reporter for the "Central Television" program Vyacheslav Nemyshev and imposed a 3-year entry ban against him.
"The Security Service of Ukraine has decided to forcibly return to Russia the propagandist from the Russian NTV television channel Vyacheslav Nemyshev," the SBU said.
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"This became the basis for attracting SBU operatives to the probe. The SBU found that Nemyshev "worked" in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine from the spring of 2016 until the autumn of 2017. He prepared a number of false anti-Ukrainian reports at the request of Russian curators and in the interests of the top-level militant leaders, to justify and popularize in the media their illegal activities," the SBU said.
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"The propagandist is banned from entering Ukraine for a period of three years. According to the agreements reached and to prevent artificial accusations by Russia of the alleged harassment of Russian journalists, the SBU informed on the fact representatives of international and domestic human rights groups working in the field of protecting freedom of speech," the department said.