Zakharova Om Västjournalister I Kursk
2024-08-22
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a question from the Vzglyad newspaper regarding Western journalists’ activity in the Kursk Region
Question: Recently, the media have been airing stories by Western journalists reporting from the Kursk Region. How would you comment on their activities in Russia?
Maria Zakharova: A legal assessment of the foreign reporters entering the sovereign territory of the Russian Federation in circumvention of the established procedures should be given by the competent authorities. However, I would like to remind you that criminal proceedings have been instituted against a number of such representatives from foreign media outlets for illegally crossing the state border of the Russian Federation. All such incidents are carefully recorded, and appropriate action will be taken against violators.From the journalistic perspective, these pseudo-reporters can only be regarded as traitors to the profession who have stooped as low as direct involvement in the fabrication and dissemination of Ukrainian Nazi propaganda. The nature of the stories published following their forays, including staged videos with Bandera followers holding POWs and civilians at gunpoint and interviews with militants openly flaunting Nazi stripes, clearly indicates the true purposes of this media operation on the occupied Russian lands – to whitewash the criminal Kiev regime, conceal the crimes it commits against the civilian population, further destabilise the information landscape by manipulating public opinion, rehabilitate Nazism and create enabling climate for the West’s continued support of the terrorist Kiev clique.
It is quite telling that when such journalists are caught demonstrating Nazi symbols (which is a criminal offence even in their own countries), they scramble to remove or retouch the compromising content. For example, Ilario Piagnerelli, with the Italian state media Rai News, has expunged an interview with a neo-Nazi militant wearing an SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler cap from his social media accounts. The journalist did not even think of apologising for his actions, but simply removed the posts, as if nothing had happened. By these manipulations, he clearly showed no sign of sincere repentance for what he did.
We consider this kind of Western media activity as evidence of their direct involvement in a far-reaching hybrid aggression against Russia.Visa ditt stöd till det informationsarbete Carl genomför
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