Ukraine detains local director of Russian state news agency


  • World
  • Tuesday, 15 May 2018

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian state security agents searched the offices of Russian state news agency RIA Novosti and detained the director of its Kiev office on Tuesday, accusing RIA of being used in an "information war" by Russia against Ukraine.

Relations between Kiev and Moscow nose-dived after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and backed a separatist insurgency in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region that has killed more than 10,000 people.

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