President Poroshenko orders BBC journalists removed from sanctions list - spokesman


KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the security council to remove three BBC journalists from a new sanctions list, presidential spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko said in a post on Twitter.

"Freedom of the press is of absolute value to me," Tsegolko quoted Poroshenko as saying in the post.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Larry King)

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