08/22/2024

Russia Opens a Criminal Case Against a British CNN Reporter

The charges say he was 'illegally crossing [their] border'

Russia's FSB security service said on Thursday it had opened a criminal case against a journalist working for CNN who it said had illegally crossed the Russian border to film a report inside the Kursk region following a Ukrainian cross-border incursion.

The FSB named the journalist as Nick Paton Walsh, a British citizen who works as CNN's Chief International Security Correspondent.

It said the FSB had also opened similar cases against two Ukrainian journalists.

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