Summary
- A Russian court ordered the arrest in absentia of CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from Ukrainian-held territory in Russia’s Kursk region.
- Moscow has launched criminal proceedings against Western journalists who reported from the Kursk region after Kyiv’s August incursion.
- The court in Kursk ordered Paton Walsh’s arrest and demanded his extradition to Russia.
- The journalist is a British national who previously worked for Channel 4 News and The Guardian.