Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the British and American media remain the most powerful in the world. He added that the Western blocking of RT and Sputnik could not weaken their influence on the inhabitants of Spain and Latin America.

Earlier, Politico published an article in which it is noted that the RT Arabic channel today has "great weight" in the Middle East. In addition, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford reported that the block of RT could not weakening their influence.