PNN – On Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry banned the entry of 92 American citizens, including a number of lawyers, journalists and employees of military companies.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Reuters, according to the list published by the Russian Foreign Ministry, 14 employees of the Wall Street Journal, five senior journalists of the New York Times, four reporters of the Washington Post and a number of prosecutors, university professors and employees of American defense and military companies have been banned from entering Russia.
The ministry said that the editorial team and reporters of “important liberal-globalist publications” were involved in the production and dissemination of “fake” news about the Russian armed forces.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that this action is part of Moscow’s response to confront the “Russophobia” of the US President Joe Biden’s administration and its extensive sanctions against Russian politicians, businessmen, scientists and journalists.
This ministry emphasized: We remind the American authorities of the inevitability of punishing hostile actions; Whether these measures include direct encouragement of Volodymyr Zelensky and his henchmen for invasion and terrorist attacks, or attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation.
Russia makes the war with Ukraine part of the West’s massive effort to bring Moscow to its knees. But Ukraine and the West have rejected this charge and accused Russia of starting an illegal war.
The war in Ukraine has become the worst crisis since the Cold War between Russia and the United States. Moscow said on Tuesday that the West was playing with fire by allowing Ukraine to invade deep into Russian territory and use Western missiles in the attack.