“I couldn’t imagine that the idea of a historic humanitarian teleconference between Kiev and Moscow would end up threatening my colleagues Vasily and Elena, as well as their family members,” said Malakhov.
He explained that the goal of the space bridge was to “show and tell people what we read, listened, watched, carried, ate all those five years that we do not communicate with each other.”
At the same time, Malakhov called the President of Ukraine the guarantor of the Constitution and urged to do everything possible so that "the servants of the people, the fourth power - the journalists would not suffer."
The Ukrainian TV channel NEWSONE has canceled a teleconference with Russia because of threats of physical violence addressed to its employees.
The broadcast was scheduled for July 12th.
Subsequently, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky expressed the opinion that the announced teleconference is a dangerous pre-election PR move of Ukrainian politicians who can divide the country.
Deputy of the State Duma from the Crimea Ruslan Balbek in an interview with the newspaper "Izvestia" expressed the opinion that the dialogue will begin only after the militant anti-Russian sentiments cease to prevail in the active part of Ukrainian society.