MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it viewed the detention and deportation of a Russian reporter by Ukrainian law enforcement officers as a "deliberate provocation."
Russia's Channel One said earlier in the day that its reporter Anna Kurbatova had been "abducted" in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Ukrainian Security Service spokeswoman Olena Gitlyanska said later that Kurbatova will be forcibly returned to Russia for anti-Ukrainian activities.
The Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement asked international human rights organizations to pay attention to the Ukrainian action against media freedom and independence.
The Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media on Twitter urged Ukraine "not to arrest & deport journalists from other OSCE States."
