INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
illegally crossing the border into the southwestern Kursk region while on reporting assignments, state media reported Friday.Authorities in
Russia have so far charged 12 foreign journalists over their work in the Kursk region following a surprise incursion by Ukrainian forces on
The journalists and their employers insist that their activities did not violate international law.The latest charges are aimed at
Australian Broadcasting Corporation correspondents Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung, who reported earlier this month from Sudzha, a
Ukrainian-held town in the Kursk region
Despite being identified as United States citizens by the FSB, both Diss and Yeung are Australian nationals, according to the state-run
TASS news agency.Romanian journalist Mircea Barba, a special correspondent for the website HotNews, was also charged after being criticized
villages in the Kursk region, including Sudzha, while Moscow asserts its forces have gradually regained control of the territory during
counteroffensive operations.
