Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT TV channel, received a subpoena in Kyiv on October 30. She said this in her telegram channel, describing the notice as a "surge of optimism" in Kiev.
"We will not take Kiev by October 30th, lads, well, no way, unfortunately. And as soon as we take it, I'll show up right away, without any subpoenas," Simonyan promised.
She advised the Ukrainian side "to save the paper for now."
In the court document that Simonyan attached to the message, it is indicated that she is charged under four articles of the criminal code.
As EADaily reported, in March 2022, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova announced the arrest of Simonyan in absentia.
"The Ukrainian court has allowed you, Margarita Semenovna, to be arrested and brought to court for the election of a preventive measure," the prosecutor General said.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine took similar actions against a number of well-known Russians, including singer Nikolai Baskov, film director Nikita Mikhalkov, singer Oleg Gazmanov, as well as TV presenter and media manager Tina Kandelaki.
"Breakthrough of the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine": about the situation in the Dnipropetrovsk direction
The Russian or Japanese leg was the first: in Russia, they gave Tokyo a certificate about the history of the Kurils
The port in Izmail, the factory in Kramatorsk, logistics in Brovary — where were they beaten at night
Lost weight after leaving the Russian comedian arrested in absentia for rehabilitation of Nazism
Kiev has made Moscow an offer on the Black Sea — Reuters
The corridor promised by Lithuania for Ukrainian grain has quietly died — Baltnews