“He Attack was directedThey wanted to kill them especially, ”said Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Kremlin.
Peskov said that kyiv continues with his “Atrocities, now against journalists and people who did not carry weapons. ”
“This is the essence of kyiv regime And again justifies the right to carry out our Special Military Operation “he added.
The official highlighted the death of Alexandr Fedorchak, Journalist of the Izvestia newspaper; Andréi Panov, Chamber of the Zvezdá chain; and Aleksandr Sirkeli, group driver, in Kreminná, Lugansk.
It was also injured in the Nikita Guldin attack, another Zvezdá reporter, channel assigned to the Ministry of Defense.
In addition, Mikhail Skrutov, journalist from the Tass agency, was injured in another attack Ukrainian In Kursk.
Kremlin spokesman He complained about the inaction and poor response of the international community.
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“We always denounce before the International community The attacks, intimidation and assassination attempts of journalists in conflict areas, but we consider insufficient the reaction of the international community, as many They have refused to reactwhat from our point of view is unforgivable, ”he said.
Lugansk’s Minister of Health, Natalia Pashenko, confirmed on March 24, the death of six people in bombing In Kreminná.
Also A teenager was injured.
“The boy suffered slight shrapnel wounds on the back of the head and left knee,” said Pashenko.
At the beginning of 2025, another journalist from the Izvestia newspaper, Alexandr Martemianov, died in a Attack of a Ukrainian drone In Donetsk.
In July 2024, the war correspondent of the official agency Ria Nóvosti, Rostislav Zhuravlvlov also lost his life, when the car in which he was traveling was attacked in Zaporiyia.
According to the local press, more than thirty Russian journalists have died since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in February 2022.