Hromadske TV journalists Stanko, Reutsky suspended accreditation to ATO area

Hromadske TV journalists Anastasia Stanko and Kostiantyn Reutsky have been temporarily suspended their accreditation to the ATO area for the time of conducting an expert examination of the video recorded on July 6.

This is stated in a message posted on Hromadske TV site.

July 11, the representatives of Hromadske TV met with the staff of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Presidential Administration, the Security Service and the press service of the airborne forces to discuss the charges against the journalists who worked in Avdiyivka in Donetsk region on July 6.

The parties agreed to establish a working group to clarify the circumstances of the conflict. Hromadske TV decided not to publish a TV story that had been filmed by journalists in the industrial zone of Avdiyivka until completion of the expert examination.

An examination will be conducted by the experts of the Defense Ministry, an additional expert examination will be conducted by the Ukrainian Institute of Mass Information.

The examination can last about two weeks. The accreditation of Anastasia Stanko and Kostiantyn Reutsky to the ATO area will be suspended for that time.

July 8, the ATO Headquarters press center appealed to the Security Service of Ukraine with the request to suspend the accreditation of three journalists (Anastasia Stanko and Kostiantyn Reutsky from Hromadske TV and Yulia Polukhina from the Novaya gazeta) who published the details from the positions of the ATO forces that might become guiding landmarks for the enemy.