Mexico FlagMEXICO, Mar 5Nothing threatens the work of the Russian media in Mexico, however, the coverage of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in local publications is not always objective, said Russian Ambassador to Mexico Viktor Coronelli. We would like to see more objective information. We are working to provide it to local print and television media,» Coronelli said at a briefing in Mexico City. The Russian diplomat expressed hope that the comments and opinions of the Russian side would find a place on the pages and on the air of local media. On March 2, the European Union banned the distribution of the signal and content of Russia Today and Sputnik amid the Russian operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the decision was published in the Official Journal of the EU. In particular, the annex to the decision lists the following organizations: RT — Russia Today English, RT — Russia Today UK, RT — Russia Today Germany, RT — Russia Today France and RT — Russia Today Spanish, as well as Sputnik without giving details. On the same day, the American company Meta disabled the applications of all the resources of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.The regulator in Germany imposed a fine of 25 thousand euros on RT Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador spoke out against restrictions on Russian media and expressed hope for clarification from Twitter in connection with the labeling of a number of local users as «media associated with the Russian government.» Foreign Minister Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the situation, said that Moscow did not expect the West to impose sanctions on journalists, athletes, cultural figures. The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeev, sent an appeal to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, and urged her to take measures to comply with the norms regarding freedom of the press, due to the harassment of Russian-language publications. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in the early morning of February 24 . President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
