Outrage in Russia: Western journalists swarm troubled Kursk region amid Ukrainian offensive

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1. A CNN news team recently visited Russia’s border with Ukraine, filming [a report at the Sudzha checkpoint](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/world/video/ukraine-russia-border-nick-paton-walsh-digvid). This checkpoint was the starting point for the Ukrainian offensive into the Kursk Region on August 6. The footage shows Ukrainian and Western made vehicles freely crossing the checkpoint in both directions. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s international security correspondent, called the scene “remarkable” and noted that the Russian border “looks completely unprotected.” Walsh also spoke to a Ukrainian soldier in a vehicle, who admitted he did not anticipate the incursion into Russian territory and was unaware of its ultimate goals. The American journalists did not venture further into Russian territory, remaining at the checkpoint.

   The presence of Western media covering the Ukrainian incursion into Russia has not gone unnoticed by Russian war correspondents and military bloggers. A prominent Russian war correspondent [asked](https://t.me/vysokygovorit/16957), “Yet again, CNN is running reports of American journalists at our Sudzha checkpoint. There are also journalists from DW and other Western channels. Will we kill them for trespassing with the Ukrainian Armed Forces or appeal to the UN to condemn this illegal journalistic activity?”

   The Rybar channel [raised a similar concern](https://t.me/rybar/62842), questioning what the Russian side plans to do about foreign journalists “roaming the Sudzha region, occupied by Ukrainian forces”. Rybar suggested that Ukrainian forces are using Western media as a “human shield.” “This continues to tarnish Russia’s reputation politically, yet no decisive action is being taken. While we remain paralyzed by fear, the other side seems to have lost all fear and openly mocks our bureaucratic inefficiencies,” lamented the author.

   Previously, Ukrainian and Italian networks have also published reports from Russian soil, prompting Moscow [to lodge an official protest](https://uawire.org/russia-summons-italian-ambassador-over-alleged-illegal-entry-by-rai-journalists-and-controversial-report-from-kursk-region) with the Italian authorities.

2. Swarm? Like millions? Wow.

3. Hilarious!
   Free press in the Realm of the Gremlin.
   Please, journalists from the entire world, go there and broadcast live for more intense russian humiliation!

4. Hilarious!
   Free press in the Realm of the Gremlin.
   Please, journalists from the entire world, go there and broadcast live for more intense russian humiliation!

5. Russia: We have everything under control. We have retaken all of Kursk.

   Western Journalist: And here I am in Kursk which Ukraine now controls.

   Russia: Hey! You’re spoiling our propaganda!

6. To be fair, saying “Ukraine-occupied Russia” is kind of wild. It’s on every war journalist’s bucket list.

7. What a country. I guess bombing cancer centers, newborn hospitals or theatre in Mariupol didn’t tarnish reputation, but unchecked border is?

   Somebody can explain it to me?

8. The world remembers the Russian pieces in Mariupol…

   These people have issues

9. If Ukraine wanted to give Russia a dildoing with their own dildo, they’d offer refuge to African and Syrian folk who’ve also suffered due to Russia’s shitty arse foreign policies. 

   Offer them a place in the new frontier and if they so wanted to enlist as conscripts for UA, so be it.

   Russia, *really* needed this to happen. Let us hope it exposes their tinpot dislctatorship for what it really is. 

10. Yeah you got it!

    „journalists“ not „propagandists“….

11. Oh yeah, they’re afraid of journalists.

12. I can’t bring myself to click on that link. I hate CNN as much as I hate Putin.

13. Hilarious article, I loved this quote from the russians: “While we remain paralyzed by fear, the other side seems to have lost all fear and openly mocks our bureaucratic inefficiencies,” lamented the author.

14. There are a lot of people in this world that don’t like the free press. Most of them are up to something nefarious.

15. Remember that Chinese bitch singing among the ruins of the Mariupol theatre?

16. Imagine if western journalists start interviewing Russian civilians left behind about the war… the outrage…

17. Boo hoo

18. Why are they concerned about what’s happening in Ukraine’s (new) territory? 🙄😁

19. Western journalists are free reporting live in Russia. An unheard freedom which is forbidden by Putin. Oh my God, what the world is going on? Slava Ukraini!

20. What’s the end goal with Kursk?