At Bute House on Wednesday, Sturgeon met with Yevhen Mankovskyi, acting consul general for Ukraine, and Linda Allison, chair of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain.
Asked whether she agrees with calls for RT to be banned in the UK, she said: “Yes, I do.
“It’s a matter for Ofcom, but I do think there is now a very serious question about whether RT should continue to have a licence to broadcast here in Scotland.
“And I would certainly encourage Ofcom to look at that very, very seriously and closely indeed.”
The First Minister said that it is now “even more unthinkable” in light of the situation in Ukraine that Salmond’s involvement with RT should continue.
She said: “I’m appalled at Alex Salmond’s continued involvement with RT.
“I don’t think it’s any secret now that I didn’t think he should ever have had a television show on RT.
“But it is even more unthinkable now that that should continue.”
Labour leader Keir Starmer has called on the UK government to review the broadcasting licence of Russian broadcaster RT.
Starmer called the network Vladimir Putin’s “personal propaganda tool” and questioned whether it should be permitted to continue to broadcast in the UK.
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