Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday accused the US intelligence providers of utilizing journalists as their brokers.
In an announcement on Telegram on the event of the primary anniversary of the arrest of US reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia, Zakharova emphasised that he was caught “red handed” and accused of espionage.
Commenting on the Wall Street Journal‘s entrance web page with Gershkovich’s portrait and notice: “His story should be here,” Zakharova questioned why the reporter didn’t cowl the matters vitally vital for Russia in the course of the years of his work within the nation.
Zakharova mentioned Gershkovich may write about Ukraine’s shelling of Russian cities, and killings of colleagues together with Oles Buzina, Pavel Sheremet, Andrey Stenin, Aanatoly Klyain, Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin and lots of others.
“He could but for some reason did not write about it during all those years that he worked in Russia. He could, if he was doing journalism and not espionage,” she burdened.
Zakharova famous that publishing Gershkovich’s portrait may very well be the WSJ’s “to demonstrate indignation” to the US intelligence providers, which “continue using journalists as their agents contrary to the US laws.”
The spokeswoman burdened that not one of the US newspapers revealed something in help of one other US journalist, Gonzalo Lira, who died in a Ukrainian jail in January 2024.
Zakharova alleged that Lira was tortured and killed by Ukraine’s Special Security Service and questioned whether or not a felony case on his demise was opened within the US.
Gershkovich, a US citizen working as a correspondent on the newspaper’s Moscow bureau, was arrested by the Federal Security Service within the metropolis of Yekaterinburg in March final yr. The company claimed he was caught “red-handed” whereas accumulating secret data.
During an interview with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson in Moscow in February, President Vladimir Putin mentioned dialogue was ongoing between the Russian and American particular providers, saying Gershkovich’s return must be resolved in a “calm, responsible and professional manner.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr