Article in The New Republic by Edith Olmsted, 2/28/25

Headline:  “Russian State Media Almost Waltzed Into Trump’s Zelenskiy Meeting”

Subhead:  “How the heck did a Russian state media reporter get access to the Oval Office?”

“As the White House cracks down on which news outlets are allowed to have access to President Donald Trump, it seems that a member of Russian state media was somehow able to make their way into the Oval Office Friday.

“While mainstream outlets the Associated Press and Reuters were kept out of a tense discussion between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a member of Tass, a Russian news agency that pushes propaganda about Russia’s ‘liberation’ of Ukraine, was briefly in the room with the two world leaders.

“A White House official told Politico that Tass was ‘not on the approved list of media’ for the day’s press pool.

“ ‘As soon as it came to the attention of press office staff that he was in the Oval, he was escorted out by the Press Secretary,’ the official said, adding that the reporter wasn’t on the list of the now-canceled press conference after, either.

“The White House did not explain how the reporter was able to gain access to the Oval Office, despite not being on the list for entry.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/192183/donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskiy-meeting-russian-state-media