KIEV, June 22 – Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva was detained in Kiev on Thursday evening, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.

"Huzhva who demanded and received $10,000 for not publishing compromising materials about an incumbent politician has been detained as part of an investigation by the State Fiscal Service and the Kiev Prosecutor's Office," Lutsenko wrote on Facebook on Thursday evening.