Journalist Mykhailo Tkach reports an attack on him: police launch investigation

The police have opened a criminal investigation over a social media post about an attack on journalist Mykhailo Tkach. UNN reports this with reference to the police of Kyiv region. 

The Kyiv region police have opened a criminal investigation into a publication about obstruction of journalistic activity. While monitoring social networks, police found a publication by an online publication about obstructing the professional activities of a journalist during a conflict near a restaurant

Details 

The incident captured on video took place on the evening of November 17. The police noted that they had not received any statements or reports of obstruction of journalistic activity during this time. 

However, investigators of the Kyiv Region Main Department of the National Police initiated criminal proceedings over the publication of the article about obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of journalists (part 2 of Article 171 of the Criminal Code).

It was also established that today, November 18, the journalist of the publication turned to a medical institution for help due to injuries sustained as a result of a conflict near a restaurant. 

The doctors reported this fact to the police, as is the procedure in such cases.

A pre-trial investigation has been initiated, in the course of which additional qualifications are possible.

Context 

According to Ukrayinska Pravda journalist Mykhailo Tkach, he and his team were filming near the village of Kozyn in Kyiv region  at around 23:20. 

One of the visitors of the establishment noticed that they were filming. Then they began to block the car of the journalists.

I got out of the car and said that I was a journalist of Ukrainska Pravda. The guards began to block me, and one of them came up and hit the camera and also struck me," Tkach said .