US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Russia should grant consular access to imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Reuters.
According to him, US consular officials have not yet been granted access to the correspondent.
Maria Zakharova, formerly the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry statedEvan Gershkowitz’s status as a journalist has no bearing on giving him consular access.
Zakharova also advised Russians to be extra careful when planning trips to hostile countries. He stressed that calls by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other US officials to their citizens to leave Russia immediately were “hypocritical and vague”, because it was Washington that “started a real hunt for the US and Russians living in third countries”. U.S. intelligence agencies have made allegations against .