\u00a0Dmitry Peskov urged Kyiv<\/a>\u00a0to release Vyshinsky as a first step toward the normalization of relations between the two neighbors.<\/p>\nVyshinsky, the head of the office of Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency in Ukraine, was arrested in May 2018 on treason charges.<\/p>\n
His arrest came amid accusations in Kyiv that RIA Novosti Ukraine was participating in a “hybrid information war” waged by Russia against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said Vyshinsky, who at the moment of his arrest had dual Russian-Ukrainian citizenship, received financial support from Russia via other media companies registered in Ukraine in order to disguise links between RIA Novosti Ukraine and Russian state media giant Rossia Segodnya.<\/p>\n
They also said he was receiving some 53,000 euros (about $60,000) a month from Russian sources for his work and that the money was sent to him through Serbia.<\/p>\n
According to the SBU, Vyshinsky was preparing reports at Moscow’s request that sought to justify the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula by Russia in 2014.<\/p>\n
Weeks after his arrest, Vyshinsky announced that he had given up his Ukrainian citizenship, called his arrest a “political order,” and suggested that he was arrested in order to use him in a swap with Moscow for a Ukrainian being held in Russia.<\/p>\n
Vyshinsky faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty of the charges against him.<\/p>\n
Sentsov, a Crimean native who opposed Russia’s 2014 takeover of the Ukrainian peninsula, was arrested by the Moscow-imposed Crimean authorities in May 2014 and charged with planning the firebombing of pro-Russia organizations in Crimea.<\/p>\n
A Russian court convicted him on multiple terrorism charges in August 2015 and sentenced him to 20 years in a maximum-security prison.<\/p>\n
Human rights activists and Western governments have called on Russian authorities to release the film director, saying his arrest and trial were politically motivated.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, Ukrainian and Russian officials have been talking about a possible swap of all Russians and Ukrainians held in the two countries.<\/p>\n
Tensions between Moscow and Kyiv have risen sharply since Russia seized Crimea and threw its support behind separatists in eastern Ukraine, helping start a war that has killed some 13,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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