Valentin Bannykh

Affiliated media: Vesti.ua, Journalist

Incident date: June 15, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Vesti.ua

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kiev

Additional information:

A support group of the Odessa activist Sergei Sternenka, who was suspected by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) of premeditated murder, interfered in the work of journalists. For their part, law-enforcement agents, claiming they had to provide security, began to push several journalists out of the courtoom.