A month passed since the arrest of Pavlo Sharoiko, a Ukrainian correspondent working in Minsk, while the only a week - since the first report on his arrest emerged, and many questions regarding the very case remain unanswered, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta wrote.
The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine refuted the claim by the Belarusian KGB of the alleged involvement of a Ukrainian journalist Pavlo Sharoiko in espionage.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Ihor Kizim received confirmation about the reasons for the detention of Ukrainian Radio correspondent Pavlo Sharoiko in Minsk - the country’s KGB accuses him of espionage, as reported by 112 Ukraine TV channel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) is taking measures to protect the correspondent of UA: Ukrainian Radio, citizen of Ukraine Pavlo Sharoiko, who has been detained in Belarus, according to Head of Department of Consular Support at the Department of Consular Services of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Vasyl Kyrylych.