"I think that was all to be expected. They had done this to other journalists that had gone there. This is just par for the course, basically. If you want to report on this war in Ukraine, you can't realistically go to Russia as well," Connolly said.
"Even those media that are still operating in Russia, they have one team operating in Moscow, another here in Ukraine, because reporting on the facts on the ground here in Ukraine is enough to provoke a charge of discrediting the Russian army, according to Russian law."
"We are operating and reporting from Ukraine and occasionally there [Russia] as part of a Ukrainian embed so nothing changes for us. I think the bigger issue is that increasingly there are just bigger and bigger blind spots, because there are so many areas affected by this war where journalists can't get to."
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