KYIV – Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officers and prosecutors raided at least two Russian government-controlled media outlets on May 15 and detained one bureau chief in Kyiv on suspicion of high treason. 

Local RIA Novosti head Kyrylo Vyshinsky was taken a day later to a pre-trial detention center in Kherson, 340 miles south of Kyiv, where he will face a hearing on whether he will be jailed, placed under house arrest or released on bail. Since most of his alleged anti-Ukrainian activities were based in Crimea, jurisdiction falls under the Crimean Prosecutor’s Office, which moved to Kherson after Russia illegally annexed the peninsula in March 2014.