The US has declared war on Russia on the information front.
The United States has declared information war against Russian media, and the latest attack stems from the West's inability to compete fairly, according to a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The new round of US sanctions against Russian media outlets is considered a declaration of “information warfare,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT.
Earlier on September 13, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new restrictions targeting RT's parent companies, Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti. He accused the network of "engaging in covert influence operations... and in effect acting as an arm of Russian intelligence."
“The level of aggression with which all this is being expressed is out of the ordinary. I think this is definitely a declaration of information warfare. It has been going on silently through the sanctions policy, but there is no statement that the Russian media will now be openly attacked,” Ms. Zakharova said.
The continued attacks on Russian media are driven purely by “jealousy” in the West “because they cannot compete” with them on an equal footing, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said. Washington has not provided any factual evidence to support its accusations against the outlets, she added.
“When they say that it is because RT did something wrong in the US, if it violated at least one US law, if at least one fake news is a sign of a global information campaign that RT is conducting on US territory, even if an RT reporter was involved in illegal activities, and an American court of some state or even a court in the Americas conducted some investigation a long time ago, then a sentence would have been served. But there is nothing to show.”
This new development, according to Ms. Zakharova, should be a wake-up call for media outlets around the world, and the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman warned that any TV station could become the next target.
“This shows that journalists all over the world should now understand that tomorrow this can happen to them. Therefore, if the media community does not unite now, if each head of the media agency does not realize this, tomorrow… it will be too late,” Ms. Zakharova warned.
