The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has deported a journalist of the Russian state-owned Rossiya 24 TV, Natalya Goncharova, to Russia. The SBU said that she was preparing anti-Ukrainian vide reports in the interests of the aggressor state.Law enforcers learnt that in early March, she produced four provocative video stories which painted a distorted picture of the situation in Ukraine, misinformed the international community and damaged Ukraine's international image.
According to the special service, she was preparing an information provocation related to the Russian presidential election.
Goncharova is barred from Ukraine for three years.