Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the ‘Russia Today’ group, wrote in a post on her Telegram channel: ‘Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky has passed away. A brave man who spent his imprisonment for his values and ours in a Ukrainian prison, strong and steadfast. He was consistently ill. Heaven’s kingdom, dear…’
In 2018, Ukrainian authorities imprisoned Vyshinsky for his beliefs, intending to exchange him later for jailed filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. Vyshinsky was released in 2019 as part of a Russian-Ukrainian exchange operation, with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing a key role in his release. Vyshinsky continued his media and journalistic activities until his death.
