The United States special services, contrary to American laws, continue to use journalists as their agents, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Maria Zakharova commented on how the United States “celebrated” a year since the detention of Evan Hershkovich, the American newspaper of The Wall Street Journal, accused of espionage in Russia.
The diplomat recalled that one issue of the publication in March came out almost entirely with an empty front page, a black-and-white portrait of a media employee and the headline “Here could be his report”.
“I don’t rule out, by the way, that this was the American edition’s way of expressing its indignation at the US intelligence services, which, contrary to US laws, continue to use journalists as their agents,” Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, in his report Gershkovich could also cover terrorist shelling of Russian cities by Ukrainian formations.
“The militants are shelling journalists, including American ones – what is not a report from a hot spot that the Americans themselves created by pumping weapons and intelligence into the militants? He could have written a big story about all the fellow journalists killed by the Kiev regime: Oles Buzina, Pavel Sheremet, Andrei Stenin, Anatoly Klein, Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin and many others. I could have, but for some reason I did not write all those years I worked in Russia. He could have, if he had been engaged in journalism and not in spy activities,” the diplomat said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the United States was responsible for the disintegration of international stability and security.