A correspondent for the Russian newspaper Izvestia has died in a vehicle attack carried out by Ukrainian drones in the Ukrainian province of Donetsk (east), according to Russian authorities.
“The deliberate murder of Russian journalists is another cruel crime in the series of bloody atrocities of the Zelensky regime that resorts to terrorist methods to eliminate its ideological opponents,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia stated on her telegram account. Russia, Maria Zakharova.
Others four journalists from Russian media were injured in the incident, which occurred on the highway between Donetsk and Horlivka, more than a dozen kilometers from the front line.
The deceased reporter, Alexander Martemyanovhad been working in the region since 2014, when Russian forces took control of Donetsk. It is unknown if the journalists’ vehicle was marked as press vehicleaccording to the Russian state news agency TASS.
Martemyanov was recording a report about a drone attack in Gorlovka just before leaving the city, according to Isabella Lieberman, a Notepad correspondent and one of the four victims of the attack.
Along these lines, the spokesperson stated that “it is evident that the journalists were deliberately chosen as targets of the attack.”
For his part, the deputy spokesman for the Secretary General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq, has told the aforementioned agency his opposition to any attack against journalists.
Donetsk, along with Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – all of them partially occupied within the framework of the invasion – were annexed in October 2022 by Russia, a measure not recognized by the international community that was added to the annexation in 2014 of the Crimean peninsula by Moscow.
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