Russia issues arrest warrant for journalist from German channel for illegal entry from Ukraine

MADRID Dec. 4 () –

The Russian Justice has issued this Wednesday an arrest warrant against a journalist who works for the German channel Deutsche Welle for having crossed the border illegally from Ukraine and entering the province of Kursk, where Ukrainian forces are carrying out an operation. military since its incursion last August.

The Leninsky district court has indicated that the order has been issued at the request of the Federal Security Service, which has indicated that the journalist, identified as Nicholas Simon Connolly, entered Russian territory “along with a group of already unidentified people.” aboard a Ukrainian Army vehicle.”

“They entered the Sudzhansky district after crossing the border with the aim of recording a report,” the FSB said in a statement in which the journalist has been included in the federal, interstate and international lists of people wanted by Russia and He is accused of having violated article 322 of the Penal Code for illegally crossing the border.

Tension between Germany and Russia has increased recently. The German Government summoned the Russian ambassador to the country, Sergei Nechaev, last week, a day after Moscow announced the expulsion of two journalists from the German public broadcaster ARD who were working on Russian territory in response to the alleged closure of the Russian Channel 1 .

However, from Berlin they maintain that the Government “did not close the Channel 1 office” and that the matter revolves around a problem with the residence permits of several Russian workers in the country.