Italian state TV recalls journalists who violated Russian border

Italy’s RAI broadcaster has recalled two of its reporters after they accompanied Ukrainian troops on a cross-border raid into Russia’s Kursk Region. Earlier on Saturday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal probe into the incident.

“The company decided to make journalist Stefania Battistini and cameraman Simone Traini return temporarily to Italy, solely to ensure personal safety and security,” RAI said in a statement on Saturday. The two reporters will fly back to Milan on Sunday, the broadcaster added.

On Wednesday, RAI aired a TV report on Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Region, in which a four-person crew of journalists were embedded with Kiev’s forces and drove deep into Russian territory. In the clip, Battistini and Traini could be seen as their car drove past what appeared to be destroyed Western-supplied Ukrainian armor,…