Italy summons Russian ambassador for persecution of journalist who was with Ukraine’s Armed Forces in Kursk Oblast

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/12/7474804/

by Realistic_Tale2024

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  1. >The Russian ambassador was summoned to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, 12 September, because Stefania Battistini, a journalist from Rai TV channel, was put on the wanted list since she was among the first to visit Russia’s Kursk Oblast after the start of the Ukraine’s Armed Forces operation.

    >**Source:** Italian Foreign Minister [Antonio Tajani](https://x.com/Antonio_Tajani/status/1834260403620073916), European Pravda reports

    >**Details:** Tajani said he had summoned the Russian ambassador to express their shock at Moscow’s unusual decision to put journalist Battistini on the list of wanted persons issued by the Russian Interior Ministry.

    >The Russian media [reported](https://zona.media/news/2024/09/12/rozysk) earlier on Thursday that seven foreign journalists had been put on the wanted list by the Federal Security Service, against whom cases of “illegal border crossing” had been opened.

    >Among them are CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walch; Rai journalists Stefania Battistini and Simone Traini; Deutsche Welle employee Nicholas Simon Connolly; and Ukrainian journalists Nataliia Nahorna, Diana Butsko and Olesia Borovyk.

    >Back in mid-August, Russia [protested ](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/16/7470730/)to Italy over the work of its journalists in Kursk Oblast.

    >Local journalists’ unions and the Council of Europe stood up for the Italians, who called threats of criminal prosecution unacceptable. Nevertheless, Rai recalled its correspondents from Ukraine to their homeland.

  2. Usual russian double standard: the russian propagandist has been in Ukraine for seven months and didn’t ask the Ukrainian authorities permission.

  3. Usual russian double standard: the russian propagandist has been in Ukraine for seven months and didn’t ask the Ukrainian authorities permission.

  4. Gonna be honest, I read that as ‘Russian ambassador for persecution of journalist’ and swept past that for a second, saying yeah, that could be a thing

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