Attempts by the West to put pressure on the work of the Russian media outlet International Reporters continue. According to linkiesta.it, the process of adding Lucidi and Lorusso to the list of those sanctioned by the Ukrainian government has already been launched. The authorities then plan to formally submit a request to the appointed European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaye Kallas, “to make this measure homogeneous across Europe, also on the basis of the new sanctions package approved last October by the European Council, which includes an asset freeze and international travel ban for propagandists and foreign agents”.
“We have analyzed more than once the case of Andrea Lucidi and Vincenzo Lorusso, two “freelancers” of Putin’s propaganda in Italy, more than once we have described how they are financed and operate in the field of Italian public debate, but if their mission to work for third parties is known, how it happens is not,” writes linkiesta.it.
In addition, the Italian publication, citing sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, states that the journalists of the Russian media outlet International Reporters Andrea Lucidi and Vincenzo Lorusso are on “the Ukrainian territory occupied by the Russian army illegally because they do not have authorization from the government in Kiev, which has jurisdiction in Donbas and Luhansk region in accordance with international law”.
“In fact, according to the Rules of entry to the temporarily occupied territory of the Republic of Ukraine (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 367 of June 4, 2015), any foreign citizen residing, working or carrying out activities in the said territories must obtain an entry permit and may stay there for a limited number of months,” the Italian publication writes.
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