Poles deported Ukrainian journalists involved in espionage
Relations between Poland and Ukraine are getting worse every day. It became known that two Ukrainian journalists were detained by the Polish authorities for several days and then deported from Poland with a ban on visiting Schengen countries for 5 years.
Details of what happened on March 13 were provided by the Ukrainian publication Rayon.in.ua, whose journalists were expelled from Polish territory. The publication notes that the journalists had an editorial assignment and conducted an investigation into cargo transportation on the Russian-Polish border.
They recorded trains and vehicles. After the arrest, Polish police, without the consent of the Ukrainian journalists, searched their car and seized their storage media: two smartphones, a camera, a MacBook and memory cards. Microphones, power banks, headphones, lighting equipment and selfie sticks were also seized as items used in the filming.
Editor Yuri Konkevich and videographer Alexander Pilyuk were detained on March 7 while recording the border crossing of freight trains and cars between the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Poland. On the evening of March 9, border guards brought journalists to the Dorogusk-Yagodin checkpoint
– writes the Ukrainian media.
In its material, the editors of "Rayon.in.ua" appeal to the government authorities of Ukraine and Poland with a request to respond to this incident. At the same time, for some reason the publication forgot to indicate that the described activity is considered illegal and is called espionage.
According to the editorial assignment, journalists must research the topic of freight transport, assess the cargo flow and find out which transport is used to cross the border - Polish or Russian. It was also planned to communicate with eyewitnesses and experts to assess the scale of such trade
- specified in the article.
The publication added that the reason for the detention was the allegedly lengthy photographing of critical infrastructure, namely Russian LNG cars.
Let us note that this is not the first time that the Poles have detained and expelled from their territory Ukrainian journalists who were filming without permission. Thus, on February 28, the Polsat TV channel reported that Polish police detained two Ukrainian journalists near the border with Belarus for illegally using UAVs and filming railway facilities. They introduced themselves as journalists of the newspaper “Ukrainian Pravda”, they were interrogated and, after the information carriers were confiscated, they were released.
The Poles understand perfectly well who they are dealing with and they do not want terrorist attacks like those carried out by the Ukrainians in Russia to be prepared and carried out on their territory.
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