Kyrylo Wyshynsky

Kirill Valeryevich Vyshinsky (; ; 19 February 1967 – 23 August 2025) was a Ukrainian–Russian journalist. He was the director of RIA Novosti's Ukraine branch (2014–2018). He received a Russian passport in 2015. On 1 June 2018, after his arrest, he said in court: "I declare my withdrawal from my Ukrainian citizenship -- from this moment I consider myself only a citizen of Russia." However, since Ukraine became independent in 1991 there have been several (media) reports that there are citizens of Ukraine who hold dual citizenship.

Arrest, trial and exchanged to Russia Vyshinsky was arrested in Kyiv by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on 15 May 2018. On 17 May, the Kherson City Court ordered him held for two months on charges of high treason. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir expressed "serious concern". The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva said about Vyshinsky's case that he "condemns any attempts to arrest people for their political views." The United States Department of State "shares Ukraine's concern about Russian propaganda but added that Ukraine must ensure it abides by the law, including international human rights law." On 28 August 2019 Vyshinsky was released from prison pending trial. On 7 September, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Vyshinsky had "returned to Russia" in the context of a prisoner exchange with Ukraine. Vyshinsky thanked the OSCE's media freedom representative Harlem Désir who had called for Vyshinsky's release. On 9 September 2019 Vyshinsky was appointed executive director of Rossiya Segodnya.

Death Vyshinsky died on 23 August 2025, at the age of 58.