Russia’s Fear of Truth: FSB Targets Foreign Reporters

Russia’s FSB, in a desperate bid to silence truth, targets journalists documenting war. Yet, their hypocrisy only amplifies the reality they fear most.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has once again shown its flair for hypocrisy, recently ¹launching criminal proceedings against foreign journalists for allegedly "illegal" border crossings into Russia. Among those targeted are American journalist Nick Paton Walsh and Ukrainian correspondents Olesya Borovik and Diana Butsko, who, according to the FSB, committed the egregious act of documenting events in the Kursk region. But let's not mince words—this is nothing more than a desperate attempt to silence those who dare to tell the truth about what’s happening on the ground.

It's almost laughable that the FSB, an institution that has long disregarded international norms, now clutches its pearls over these journalists simply doing their jobs. Let’s take a closer look at this twisted logic: Russian state media has been running rampant across Ukrainian territories since 2014, and not with a notepad and camera, but with the full force of an occupying army behind them. These propagandi…