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FRANCE 24's journalist under investigation in Russia after reporting from Kursk

FRANCE 24 was given access to Ukrainian-held areas of Kursk region, embedded with the Ukrainian army. © FRANCE 24 screengrab

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has opened criminal cases against foreign journalists for "illegally" crossing the border between Ukraine and Russia's Kursk region.

The FSB said in a statement that the latest journalists to be investigated are Catherine Norris Trent from FRANCE 24 and Kurt Pelda from Switzerland's CH Media. They are accused by the Russian authorities of having “illegally crossed the border into the Russian Federation in the Kursk region”, according to the statement.

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