Zakharova suggested that the USA urged the Americans to leave Russia.
MOSCOW, March 30 – RIA Novosti. Spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova she made a joke White House spokesman John Kirby urged the Americans to leave Russia, claiming they were talking about spying.
Zakharova, on her Telegram channel, commenting on Kirby’s news that the US Department of State repeated her call to the US State Department, saying, “It seems to me that John forgot to add the word “espionage” before the word “Americans. Refusal to travel to Russia.
The USA requests a notification from Russia for the arrest of WSJ reporter Gershkovich
Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged American citizens who remained in Russia at the time of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s arrest to “leave the country immediately”.
Earlier on Thursday, the FSB announced that Gershkovich, a correspondent for the WSJ’s Moscow bureau, was detained in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of spying on behalf of the US government. According to the intelligence service, the American collected information “about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex”, which constitutes a state secret. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that Gershkovich was caught red-handed.
The WSJ denied the allegations against Gershkowitz and demanded his immediate release. In response, Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Gershkovich’s activities in Yekaterinburg “have nothing to do with journalism.”
White House: US does not urge media to recall journalists in Russia
Source: Ria
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