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, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The new round of US sanctions against Russian media outlets is considered a declaration of “information war,” 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 effectively 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,” Zakharova said.
The continued attacks on Russian media are driven purely by “jealousy” in the West “because they cannot compete” fairly with them, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said. She added that Washington has not provided any factual evidence to support its accusations against these media outlets.
“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 was a sign of a global information campaign that RT was conducting on US territory, even if an RT reporter was involved in illegal activities, and a US 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 for it.”
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 around the world should now understand that tomorrow this could 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,” Zakharova warned.
