Russian Court Orders Arrest Of French TV Reporter

A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Catherine Norris Trent, a reporter for the France24 news channel, on a charge of crossing illegally into its western Kursk region, state news agency TASS said.

It said she had entered the region with the Ukrainian military in order to file a report.

Russia has launched criminal cases against a number of Western journalists who have reported from Kursk, where Ukrainian troops broke across the border on August 6 and have carved out a slice of Russian territory.

The proceedings have been launched in absentia, and the orders mean the reporters would be arrested if they set foot inside Russia.

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