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Russia opens criminal probe into Italian journalists who entered Kursk

This photograph, taken on 16 August, 2024 during a media tour organised by Ukraine, shows a damaged road sign with directions to Ukraine and Russia at a destroyed border crossing point near the Ukrainian-controlled Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region. AFP - YAN DOBRONOSOV

Russia opened a criminal probe on Saturday into two Italian journalists who reported on Ukraine's offensive in the Kursk region, accusing them of crossing the border illegally.

Russia's FSB security service said it had launched a case against "foreign journalists Simone Traini and Stefania Battistini, who illegally crossed the State Border of the Russian Federation", according to the RIA news agency.

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