Moscow: American intelligence agencies use journalists as agents

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published a post on the Telegram messenger on the occasion of the first anniversary of the arrest of Ivan Gershkovich, a reporter of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, who was arrested last year on charges of espionage in Yekaterinburg, Russia. and emphasized on his arrest while committing the crime.
Zakharova, while commenting on Gershkovich’s picture on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, asked why this journalist did not cover issues of vital importance to this country during his years of news activity in Russia.

This senior official of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that this detained reporter of the Wall Street Journal could have told about the shelling of Russian cities by Ukraine and the killing of his colleagues such as Oles Bozina, Pavel Shermet, Andrey Stanin, Anatoly Kalyan. “, “Igor Kornilyuk”, “Anton Voloshin” and many others.

He added: “He could have written about these issues all those years he worked in Russia, but for some reason he didn’t write about them. If he was working as a journalist and not a spy, he could have written these things.”

According to Zakharova, the Wall Street Journal article was published along with Gershkovic’s picture with the aim of showing anger towards the US special intelligence services “which continue to use journalists as their agents against US laws”.

This spokesperson emphasized that none of the American newspapers have published an article in support of Gonzalo Lira, an American journalist who died in a Ukrainian prison in January 2024.

Zakharova emphasized that Lira was tortured and killed by the special security service of Ukraine, but has a criminal case been opened in America regarding her death?

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, a former anchor of Fox News last February in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that the dialogue between the Russian and American special services is taking place and the issue of Gershkovich’s return should be resolved “in a calm way, be resolved responsibly and professionally.

Source: ISNA