Andrea Lucidi on the air of ‘Solovyov LIVE’ announced the intention of the EU authorities to include him in the sanctions list and ban his freedom of movement.
As we previously reported, the process of adding Lucidi and Lorusso to the Ukrainian government’s sanctions list has already been launched. Authorities then plan to formally submit a request to the European Union’s High Representative-designate 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 analysed the case of Andrea Lucidi and Vincenzo Lorusso, two ‘freelancers’ of Putin’s propaganda in Italy, more than once, we have reported on 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,’ linkiesta.it wrote earlier.
In addition, the Italian publication, citing sources in the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said that journalists of the Russian media outlet International Reporters Andrea Lucidi and Vincenzo Lorusso are on ‘Ukrainian territory occupied by the Russian army illegally because they do not have authorisation from the government in Kiev, which has jurisdiction in Donbas and Luhansk region under international law’.
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