A showing of the Russian internet documentary "War 08.08.08. The Art of Betrayal" on the war in the Caucasus, attended by Russian and Ukrainian diplomats and government officials, was disrupted on Wednesday in Kiev.
Commenting on the incident, the ministry said: "such prohibitive and restrictive measures contradict common norms and notions of democracy, freedom of speech and media independence."
The Ukrainian Security Service issued an order on Wednesday to prohibit the showing of the film, saying it could result in public disorder.
Organizers of the event decided to hold the showing in a lobby of the Hyatt hotel in Kiev, but shortly before the film started the screen was stolen, preventing the presentation.
The abortive screening, which was attended by Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin, was organized by a Ukrainian parliamentary commission investigating illegal weapon supplies to Georgia.
The parliamentary commission was set up after Russia accused Ukraine of supplying Georgia with military weapons and equipment prior to a brief military conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi.
Valeriy Konovalyuk, who heads the commission, earlier said that the commission had established that in May and June Ukraine was supplying Georgia with arms.
Ukraine's State Council on Security and Defense immediately dismissed Konovalyuk's allegations, calling them "absurd."
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last month that he considered alleged Ukrainian arms supplies to Georgia during the recent war over South Ossetia "a crime."
