Russian Blogger Mitroshina to Be Banned from Entering Ukraine
She visited Crimea.
Russian blogger Alexandra Mitroshina, whose visit to Kyiv caused a scandal yesterday, will still be banned from entering Ukraine. This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in a statement.
"Crimea is an occupied part of Ukraine! The occupier is Russia! These are truths that no one denies or questions until the flag of Ukraine is raised in Sevastopol! Russian citizen Alexandra Mitroshina was not banned from entering Ukraine. She crossed the border at a railway checkpoint," the statement says.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs says that when she came to Ukraine, they had no way to check whether she had visited Crimea, which is why she was allowed through. Now that this is known for certain, her entry is banned.
As press secretary of the State Border Guard Service Andriy Demchenko told Ukrainska Pravda, Mitroshina may be banned from entering Ukraine for three years.
As a reminder, yesterday in Kyiv Mitroshina could not answer a question from activists of the Ukrainian civic movement Vidsich, "Whose Crimea?", and publicly said that she had visited the peninsula in 2017.
Vidsich activist Leonid Ovcharenko was detained harshly — handcuffed and forced to his knees. He was then taken to a police station.
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