President Poroshenko orders BBC journalists removed from sanctions list …


KYIV Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the security council to remove three BBC journalists from a new sanctions list, presidential spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko said in a post on Twitter.

“Freedom of the press is of absolute value to me,” Tsegolko quoted Poroshenko as saying in the post.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Larry King)