US sanctions against RT are ‘aggression’ – Moscow

The new US sanctions against RT and other Russian media outlets are a brazen act of aggression that should concern the rest of the world, as Washington could apply the same measures to others, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new restrictions targeting RT parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti while accusing the network of being “engaged in covert influence activities… and functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence.”

In her opening remarks at the BRICS media summit in Moscow on Saturday, Zakharova described the recent US crackdown on Russian media an “emergency situation” that she said should be of direct concern to the group’s members.