He wrote about this on his Twitter, commenting on Tagesspiegel's information that DW was not allowed to accompany Scholz to Moscow.

“To avoid any misunderstanding: Deutsche Welle has been invited to the Chancellor’s trip to Moscow,” Hebestrait said.

Earlier, Tagesspiegel, citing its own data, said that DW representatives were refused to accompany Scholz during his visit to Moscow on February 15.

The article of the publication said that in this way the German chancellor could try to avoid conflict with the Russian leadership.

On February 3, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the first stage of retaliatory measures against the German media due to the situation with the ban on RT DE broadcasting.

As part of the retaliatory measures, the Deutsche Welle bureau was closed in Russia, the accreditations of all employees of the Russian bureau of this television and radio company were canceled, and its satellite and other broadcasting was stopped