Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Maria ZakharovaMOSCOW, Feb. 5 The US State Department supports a German media company Deutsche Welle, because it is a NATO propaganda machine, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Earlier, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Washington condemned Russia's decision to close the Moscow office of Deutsche Welle.
Antonov called the Bloomberg article about Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine an outrage «The fact that the American Foreign Office supports a German TV channel, which is funded from the state budget of Germany, speaks for itself — NATO's propaganda machine in action,» Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel. In addition, she wondered, “when will the State Department release a report about fake Bloomberg?” Also, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told journalists from which countries worked at the DW bureau in Moscow. “Do you know how many people worked at the DW bureau? 19 people work,” she said on the air of the YouTube channel “SolovievLive”. She said that of them from “Germany — one person, the second from the USA, the third is either Britain or France … 16 — what do you think, where Citizens of the Russian Federation.” On Saturday night Moscow time, the Bloomberg agency published a headline on the website about the beginning of Russia's “invasion” of Ukraine, then admitted the mistake and deleted it. According to the statement, the circumstances of this mistake are being investigated. although there were no facts. And there are plenty of facts about Bloomberg, and the State Department is silent,» Zakharova noted. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia, in response to the cessation of broadcasting of the RT DE television channel, in particular, closes the Deutsche Welle office in the Russian Federation and cancels the accreditations of all employees its Russian bureau, and also stops satellite and other broadcasting of the channel in Russia. At the same time, a high-ranking source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti that the measures taken against the German media in Russia are retaliatory, and if Germany changes its position on RT DE, then Russia will respond positively. The source also noted that during the visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock to Moscow, ways out of the crisis around RT DE were proposed, but Berlin refused to discuss it.
