{"id":250768,"date":"2024-09-13T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=250768"},"modified":"2024-09-13T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:30:20","slug":"russia-issues-arrest-warrants-for-western-reporters-who-are-actually-cia-media-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=250768","title":{"rendered":"Russia issues arrest warrants for Western reporters [who are actually CIA media agents]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/603933-western-journalists-kursk-warrants\/\">READ HERE:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moscow has issued arrest warrants for seven journalists who illegally entered Russia\u2019s Kursk Region while embedded with Ukrainian troops last month.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine sent several brigades across the border on August 6, eventually seizing the town of Sudzha and several smaller villages. Russian authorities subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/602967-cnn-reporter-charged-russia\/\">opened<\/a>\u00a0a criminal probe into several Western news crews that accompanied the invaders.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Western reporters traveled in an armored convoy with Ukrainian soldiers, filmed damaged buildings in the center of the\u00a0Sudzha and spoke to Russian civilians.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper, the Ukrainian military\u00a0<em>\u201caccompanied\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Paton Walsh and reviewed the videos his crew filmed prior to their release\u00a0<em>\u201cfor operational security reasons,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but had\u00a0<em>\u201cno editorial control\u201d<\/em>\u00a0over CNN\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has accused the Western reporters who crossed the border of providing\u00a0<em>\u201cpropaganda\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on behalf of Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said the foreign journalists embedded with Ukrainian troops were\u00a0<em>\u201cmanipulating public opinion\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and staying silent about\u00a0<em>\u201cKiev\u2019s crimes against civilians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}