Kirill Vyshinsky

Head of the branch of the Russian news agency "RIA Novosti" – "RIA Novosti Ukraine".

On May 15, SBU officers searched the outlet's office in Kyiv. Vyshinsky was detained during the searches.

According to the "Myrotvorets" website, in the spring of 2014 he worked in Crimea, where, with the journalists under his control, he produced materials justifying Russia's annexation of Crimea.

For this activity, Vyshinsky was presented with the Russian award "For the Return of Crimea" by a secret decree of the President of Russia. He was also awarded the Russian medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" for the so-called "objective coverage of events in Crimea". Vyshinsky has dual citizenship: Ukrainian and Russian. He was under arrest for more than a year.

On September 7, 2019, Kirill Vyshinsky was taken to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.