KYIV, February 11 Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Culture of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and Oleksandr Tkachenko called on Ukrainian and foreign journalists to rely on facts when covering the conflict in Donbass. Earlier, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine announced the intensification of the work of foreign media in the territory of Donbass not controlled by Kiev. In particular, Reuters journalists interviewed Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry criticized Reuters for the interview.When the US sets Donbas on fire «The war in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions is an international armed conflict. <…> This position is shared not only by Ukraine, but also by the international community. <…> The Russian occupation administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk have no subjectivity: neither in the negotiation process nor in decision-making. We ask Ukrainian and foreign journalists not to create pseudo-subjectivity in the information space for those who do not have this subjectivity in the real world,» the ministers said in a statement published on the website of the Foreign Ministry. The ministers noted that Ukraine defends the standards of media freedom and strongly encourages independent journalism. “At the same time, as a country that knows from its own experience how harmful Russian propaganda is, we call on Ukrainian and international media not to succumb to it,” the statement said. In addition, the ministers recalled that journalists from any country have the right to visit territory of Donbas not controlled by Kiev through Ukrainian checkpoints along the demarcation line, but any other way of visiting is a violation and subject to sanctions.»The goal is the Russian border.» In the West, they quarrel over Moscow and Kiev. Earlier, YouTube video hosting blocked a number of information channels of the LPR and DPR. In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, which declared independence after the coup in Kiev in February 2014. According to the latest UN data, about 13 thousand people became victims of the conflict. The issue of resolving the situation in Donbass is being discussed, including during meetings of the contact group. However, even after the armistice agreements, skirmishes continue, in the DPR and LPR they announced shelling of residential areas by Ukrainian heavy artillery. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Moscow are categorically denied and constantly declare that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the information hysteria of the US and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. West
