The Kremlin bans 92 US citizens from entering the country, including 24 journalists. Russian Foreign Ministry cites the "Russophobic course" of the Biden administration as the reason for these sanctions.

State security (FSB) opens two more criminal cases against foreign journalists, Natalya Nahorna of 1+1 and Niklas Connolly of Deutsche Welle, for reporting from Ukrainian-controlled Sudzha. They join five other reporters bogusly charged with illegal border crossing after covering Ukrainian military incursion into Russia.

Polish journalist Monika Andruszewska was injured in a Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk’s Hotel Sapphire, which killed Reuters safety adviser Ryan Evans and injured 2 other journalists.