Photojournalist Nikita Tsitsagi died near Ugledar in the DPR during an attack by an Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV
NEWS.ru military photojournalist Nikita Tsitsagi died as a result of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Ugledar in the Northern Military District zone.
It all happened in the area of the St. Nicholas Monastery near Ugledar, from where the journalist planned to make a report. The correspondent died in an attack by Ukrainian drones. Information about the incident was confirmed by his colleagues on the spot and operational services.
How reported The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, has regularly visited the republic since March 2022 to cover the events of Tsitsagi. The head of the DPR also expressed condolences to the journalist’s family and friends.
Nikita Tsitsagi also collaborated with Lenta.ru. The last material he sent to the editor was a photo report about prisoners of war of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who are being held in high-security prisons in the special operation zone
In June 2023, Tsitsagi received the Editorial Board award for his report from Shebekino “Everything is burning and there is nothing” for New Tab. On June 13, Tsitsagi’s last material, which he sent to our editorial office, was published on Lenta.ru.
This is the second attack on Russian journalists in a week.
On June 13, two employees of the NTV channel and an escort officer were seriously injured during shelling of the village of Golmovsky (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) in the DPR. Correspondent Alexey Ivliev and cameraman Valery Kozhin were taken to the city hospital. Pushilin clarified that the journalists received mine explosion injuries. Later, one of them, Valery Kozhin, died. The operational services, meanwhile, admitted that a Ukrainian drone could have been a possible cause of injury to the NTV film crew.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on what happened, said that Ukrainian troops deliberately attacked employees of the Russian TV channel. She also indicated that, according to available data, ammunition was dropped from an Ukrainian Armed Forces drone.
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In April, a group of journalists came under targeted fire in the LPR
Russian journalists were attacked on April 10 near the village of Kremennaya. As a result, Yevgeny Polovodov, an officer from the press center of the Russian Ministry of Defense, who was accompanying the reporters, died. Two journalists were injured – cameraman Denis Shum was hospitalized with a slight shrapnel wound to the leg, correspondent Artem Yundas was shell-shocked, and his doctors released him the same day.
As Yundas said, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to finish off the victims using a drone. “The bird was above us. Immediately as we started to leave in the evacuation vehicle, the “loaf,” a drone flew,” he said. Apparently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to get into the car, as a hole was found in it.
Russian Foreign Ministry statedwhich regards what happened as another criminal action by the Ukrainian authorities, who continue to consider journalists and military officers as priority targets.
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