The Ukrainian news station 17 Kanal has published video of an incident at the Minsk summit on February 12 that is said to involve a female correspondent from the Kremlin television channel Rossiya 24.
A security guard silenced the journalist who ran close to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and made an attempt to ask a question. He muzzled her in a headlock, pressing her face into his shoulder and whispering ‘quiet, quiet’.
The protection officers allegedly wanted to prevent her from committing a provocative act. When questioned later about the incident, the bodyguard claimed he was only hugging the journalist, meduza.io reports.
On February, 11 Pavel Zarubin, a journalist working for pro-Putin TV channel Rossiya ‘greeted’ the Ukrainian leader in Minsk with a cry “Why are your troops bombing civilians in Donbas?”
Soon after Alexander Yunashev, a representative of Russian TV company Lifenews attacked a Ukrainian reporter and literally barked at her.
