Ukraine was under fire on Thursday after it admitted staging the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, despite relief in Russia and Ukraine that he was alive. "There can be no grounds for faking a journalist's death," the head of Reporters Without Borders Christophe Deloire said Wednesday, describing it as a "pathetic stunt". Babchenko, who told the press he had been preparing to stage his death with secret services for several weeks, dismissed the criticism. In a hybrid war there are sometimes hybrid victims," Russian journalist Boris Grozovsky wrote on Facebook. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko later met Babchenko and wrote triumphantly on Facebook that "millions of people are celebrating" the journalist's return to life.

Source: dna May 31, 2018 11:31 UTC