Russia exploits wildfires in Los Angeles to push anti-US, anti-Ukraine propaganda

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of “obscurantist hypocrisy” for allowing inmates to fight Los Angeles wildfires. Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti cited Zakharova on January 12, saying that the use of prisoners as firefighters is no different from China’s use of forced labor, which the U.S. has been condemning for years. “Hundreds of prisoners have been recruited to fight wildfires in southern California … In recent years, U.S. officials have repeatedly criticized China for using forced labor, especially in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region … [W]ill Congress impose sanctions on the California government, private

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