Moscow has issued arrest warrants for journalists from CNN, RAI and DW
Moscow has issued arrest warrants for seven journalists who illegally entered Russia’s Kursk Region with Ukrainian troops last month.
Ukraine sent several brigades across the border on August 6, eventually seizing the town of Sudzha and several smaller villages. Russian authorities subsequently opened a criminal probe into several Western news crews that accompanied the invaders.
The Internal Affairs Ministry in Moscow announced on Thursday that it had put out warrants for the arrest of four journalists from US, German and Italian outlets, as well as three Ukrainian nationals.
They were named as Nick Paton Walsh (CNN), Nick Connolly (Deutsche Welle, DW) Stefania Battistini and Simone Traini (Radiotelevisione Italiana, RAI), Natalia Nagornaya (1+1), Diana Butsko, and Olesya Borovik.
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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) had earlier named five suspects. Connolly and Nagornaya were apparently added to the wanted list this week. If convicted, they face up to five years in prison for illegally crossing the border.