The Kyiv police have yet to receive the complaint about Inter journalists being prevented from doing their work, of which the company's spokesperson said earlier, Kyiv police chief Andriy Kryschenko has said.
Speaking on the 112 Ukraine television channel about the Inter head office being picketed by a group of activists on Monday, he said that the national police officers were there to prevent possible provocations.
“This will be the primary role. The activists are not demanding anything from the police. Their calls are being addressed to the television channel. It was not they who put up the fence [around the Inter office] but the television channel’s staff, security. The protestors set up a few tents with the aim to continue picketing. Currently the situation is quiet. There are enough police officers there to prevent the picketers from attempting to step up their actions,” Kryschenko said.
As reported that, in the morning on September 5, the office building of the Inter television channel in Kyiv was surrounded by a metal fence after the arson near the office of the National Information Systems company. Several dozen activists, some of them in camouflage uniforms, were outside the building. In addition, several emergency, police and ambulance vehicles are on standby. The inscriptions painted over the fence read: “Kremlin’s abettors,” “Inter – out!” Later the activists brought tires and barricaded the road leading from the building.
Those assembled outside the Inter office announced an indefinite protest and blockade, as well as their intention to set up a roadblock there.
“We are now closing off this channel so that Russian agents could not get in there. We are letting everyone out and not letting anyone in,” Holy Mary battalion fighter Oleksiy Serediuk told reporters.
This is an indefinite protest, he said, adding that by midday the activists were expecting their numbers to increase to over a thousand. They also want to set up a tent city and a checkpoint outside the channel’s office building. The protest involves fighters from the Donbas, Aidar and Holy Mary batallions, students and active Kyiv residents, he said.
