Charges were brought against Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel, by the Security Service of Ukraine to justify a possible attempt on her life. Simonyan himself expressed this opinion in his speech. telegram channel.
RT’s editor-in-chief reminded that Ukraine had filed a criminal complaint against him, alleging genocide, violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, war propaganda and legitimizing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and calling for the destruction of Ukrainian children.
“Why are they doing this, the progressive public is asking me,” Simonyan asked.
According to him, there are two main reasons for this.
The first is to close off the opportunity to travel the world, “believing I will suffer for it.” Simonyan stated that he did not care about this and would only be upset if he was deprived of the opportunity to travel to his hometown, the Krasnodar region.
Secondly, “If they kill me, they make excuses for themselves beforehand. “What they’ve already tried to do several times.”
1 April Security Service of Ukraine presented in absentia Accusations against RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. According to the SBU, Simonyan allegedly called for the mass destruction of Ukrainian children in December 2023 and also “repeatedly campaigned for the continuation of missile and bomb attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.”
Formerly at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated About the hysteria of the head of the SBU.