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Hi - first of all i hope you guys are ok, and that this war will end with peace and justice for Ukraine.

In Denmark today - our main news on the war is that one of our most significant and experienced Journalist for danish state TV, Mathilde Kimer, has been banned by Ukrainian intelligence services (SBU) to act as a journalist in your country.

The reason being they accuse her of creating "Soviet Propaganda". The funny thing being, she has also been banned from Russia on similar accusations with opposite ends.

What is your take on freedom of speech in Ukraine during this war, and on the story of banned western Journalists?

Sorry but the idea of a state stopping journalists from going anywhere is worriesome. SBU could have checked what she actually has reported for Danish national tv, and seen that she in fact does provide a very proffessional coverage of the war.

They do not accuse her of being a spy, but of doing Russian propaganda - it is from a danish perspective an insane accusation as Kimer has been one of the very reasons the danish people support the ukrainian people.

In Denmark we support Ukraine because we think it is the right thing to do, and because we are against the Russian dictator state. But if Ukraine developes similar tendencies to prosecute Journalists and not allowing free speech, I see that as a very real threat to the support from western denocracies.

Sure but the support from the west is dependent on the view that we support a democracy in contrast to Russia.

If EU politicians have to start justifying sending weapons and money to Ukraine, due to antidemocratic anti free press development, it will jeopardize the support from the EU.