Ukraine asks West to ban world travel for Russian media chiefs – minister advisor

17:32, 23.07.2014 1 min read

Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has proposed that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin ask the European Union, the United States and a number of other countries to impose travel ban on some leaders of the Russian media, interior minister's adviser Anton Heraschenko has said.

At a briefing in Kyiv he named leaders of the VGTRK TV company (Russia 1, Russia 2, Russia 24), Channel One Russia, RT, Zvezda, Life News, NTV, TNT, RenTV, TRK-Petersburg and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, who are candidates for getting travel ban freeze for spreading lies about events in Ukraine.

"These people, working at their posts, earn money, receive means for constantly spreading lies on the events in Ukraine. If today Europe and the United States aren't ready to provide armed assistance in Ukraine or aren't ready to impose tough economic sanctions, then we're asking civilized countries to show that they are together with Ukraine and ban entry to these leaders of the Russian media, let they spend holidays above the Arctic circle and in the Urals," he said.