From LB I got the idea to dig on Russia from a anons post, anyway I found this on the Russian Consulate. The most interesting thing to me was there is a website called Mirotvorets that keep a list of western journalists that visited Easten Ukraine on its servers and is still operating today. I'm paraphrasing, Kek
Sorry forgot my sauce
https://www.facebook.com/pg/RusConsTX/posts/?ref=page_internal
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/embassy_statement?source=feed_text
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