Detention of Ukrainian journalists in Poland: editorial office to appeal against the ban on entry to the Schengen zone.

Polish law enforcement officers returned the equipment to the journalists of the agency 'Raiyon.in.ua,' which was confiscated after the Ukrainian media workers were filming a story about freight trains and cars crossing the border between the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation and Poland. This was reported by the head of the parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Speech, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn.

At that Time, Polish police confiscated smartphones, cameras with memory cards, and an editorial laptop from journalist Yuriy Konkevych and cameraman Oleksandr Pilyuk.

'I contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on this issue and have been keeping the case under personal control ever since. It became known earlier that the equipment had to be returned. And today, Nataliya Pakhaychuk reported that the equipment was returned. Justice is being restored, but the issue is still not completely resolved,' the deputy noted.

It is worth noting that Yuriy Konkevych and Oleksandr Pilyuk were banned from entering the Schengen zone for five years. Therefore, the editorial office will appeal this decision.

Recall, in Poland, two journalists from the Information Agency 'Raiyon.in.ua' were detained while investigating freight traffic on the Russian-Polish border. This is reported on the 'Raiyon.in.ua' website.

It is reported that editor Yuriy Konkevych and cameraman Oleksandr Pilyuk were detained on March 7 while recording the crossing of the border by freight trains and cars between the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Poland. As of the evening of March 9, border guards brought the journalists to the Dorohusk-Yagodyn checkpoint.

According to the editorial assignment, the journalists were to research the topic of freight traffic, assess the cargo flow, and find out which transport is used to cross the border - Polish or Russian.

By the way, journalist Mykhailo Tkachenko and his cameraman were also detained near the Polish-Belarusian border when they were filming material allegedly about the transit of goods between Poland, Russia, and Belarus.