Investigators from the Office of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General are conducting searches of the home and office of Andrei Domansky, the lawyer of the RIA Novosti Ukraine news outlet’s chief editor Kirill Vyshinsky.

"The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has decided to search my home and office, as well as the home of my assistant, while I am away in Kherson, studying the case files and waiting for a court hearing of the request to extend Kirill Vyshinsky’s arrest," Domansky wrote on Facebook on Thursday.