He said this during a working visit to Ivano-Frankivsk.

According to Zelensky, the Ukrainian authorities are currently creating a separate team to protect journalists.

The President of Ukraine stated that journalism is “a very serious profession.”

“He worked with journalists for 15 years. It is necessary to investigate and very severely punish those people who are engaged in such affairs, ”Ukrinform quotes him.

Earlier, the Kiev police opened a criminal case on the fact of an attack by a group of radicals on the press center of the agency Ukrinform, as a result of which three people were injured.