The war correspondent of the official Russian agency RIA Novosti Rostislav Zhuravliov was killed when the car in which he was traveling was attacked in Zaporizhia, reported Yevgeny Valitsky, acting governor of that southern region annexed by Russia.
Zhurabliov died as a result of the serious injuries received, Valitski specified on his Telegram channel, where he accused the Ukrainian army of the attack.
Three other Russian reporters were injured in the attack, which occurred when the car was between the town of Vasilievka and the town of Vladimirovka.
It is about the photographer Konstantín Mijalchevski; the cameraman Dmitri Shilkov, and the journalist of the newspaper “Izvestia”, Roman Polshakov, who have already received medical attention in the field hospitals of the Russian Army, according to the source.
The Russian Defense Ministry denounced in a statement that the attack with artillery fire was perpetrated by Ukrainian troops with cluster munitions.
“The state of health of the other journalists is moderately serious, but stable. Their lives are not in danger,” he said.
Russia warned today that those guilty of the death of the war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravliov, who worked for the official agency RIA Novosti, will receive “deserved punishment”.
“Those guilty of the brutal retaliation against the Russian journalist will inevitably receive a well-deserved punishment,” said Maria Zajárova, a spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs, in a statement. The diplomat stressed that “all responsibility is also shared by those who supplied cluster bombs to their protégés in kyiv.”
“The Kiev regime continues the practice of criminal terror. Everything indicates that the attack against the group of journalists was not accidental,” he said. He stressed that the attacked reporters were collecting material on the alleged attacks carried out by Ukrainian troops against various towns in Zaporizhia with the use of cluster munitions, “weapon prohibited in many countries.”
The West “only shows concern for the safety of journalists in words, when in practice they are sponsors of terrorists,” he insisted.
Zajárova also admitted that she harbors no illusions that the relevant international organizations will not “turn a blind eye” as on previous occasions, making them “accomplices in Kiev’s terrorist excesses,” she added.
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