“I would like to remind CNN correspondents that, according to Antony Blinken, the world order is not based on international law, but on some unknown rules,” said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“So, first of all, let them decide within their own elites whether they will live according to international law or according to anonymous rules, and then they will discharge their rights. And secondly, there are laws of the sovereign Russian Federation, which no one should violate,” Zakharova stressed.

Previously on CNN fixedthat their report on Sudzha allegedly does not violate international law. “Our team was invited by the Ukrainian government, along with other international journalists and accompanied by Ukrainian military personnel, to inspect the territory it recently occupied.” explains American television channel.

“This is a protected activity and is consistent with the rights granted to journalists by the Geneva Convention and other international laws,” CNN said. However, the company did not specify which provisions it was referring to.

Recall that correspondent Nick Walsh's report was published on August 16. The footage shows journalists with military personnel arriving at the destroyed Sudzha border crossing and then, allegedly, into the town itself. Gunfire and explosions can be heard in the background.

FSB later reportedthat a criminal case has been opened against a CNN journalist for illegally crossing the Russian border and filming in the Sudzhi area. He faces up to five years in prison. According to a similar article, enthusiastic criminal case against Italian journalists Simoni Traini and Stefani Battistini.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, stressed that Moscow considers the activity of Western media in the Kursk region as evidence of their direct involvement in hybrid aggression. SEE Newspaper wrote on the objectives pursued by the United States and the EU by sending their journalists to the Kursk region.