National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby urged all US

citizens

, including journalists, to leave Russia.  

CNN

writes

about it

"Now is not the time for Americans to be in Russia. If you are in Russia right now - for business or pleasure, for any purpose - you need to leave immediately. It's not a good place, even if you're a journalist. Russia is a hostile environment right now for American citizens. And it's time to get out if you're there," he stressed.

John Kirby also reported that the US did not get consular access to the American journalist arrested the day before.

It will be recalled that

the FSB detained in Yekaterinburg the correspondent of the Moscow branch of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the US citizen Evan Hershkovich,

born in 1991.

A criminal case of espionage was opened against him.

He wrote an article about the attitude of Russians to PMK "Wagner".

Russia's FSB said that Hershkovych "gathered secret information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industry."

The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

US President Joe

Biden for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the American

Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Hershkovich, who was detained by FSB officers in Yekaterinburg on charges of "espionage".

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