I don't know. But, even if there is at least some truth to it, if Russia had any input on the story, I would expect it to be far from entirely accurate.
Anyway, that wasn't the main reason I posted. I was primarily warning any unsuspecting FReeper of our local group of Putin-supporting phonies. aka Putin's Trolls/Putinistas.
President Petro Poroshenko has reversed his decision to ban three BBC journalists from Ukraine after an international outcry.
Correspondent Steve Rosenberg, producer Emma Wells and cameraman Anton Chicherov were among 400 people and 90 organisations barred from Ukraine, according to an expanded sanctions list against people posing a “threat to national security” signed by Poroshenko on Wednesday.
Many Russian officials, journalists and television channels were also banned, as well as two Spanish journalists who went missing in Syria in July.
After the move to bar the British journalists caused a minor uproar, Poroshenko ordered the national security council to remove the names of the BBC employees from the list.