A Russian journalist from the Ria Novosti news agency was killed in southern Ukraine on Saturday, July 22, after a Ukrainian bombing raid in the Zaporizhia region. Several other people were injured.
“A heinous crime,” according to Russian authorities. The Russian army has announced the death of a Russian journalist from the Ria Novosti news agency, Rostislav Jouravlev, who was killed in a Ukrainian bombing raid this Saturday. Several other people were injured in the offensive in the Zaporizhia region.
“During the evacuation Rostislav Jouravlev died (…) from his injuries,” the Russian authorities said. The health of the three other injured journalists was “stable,” according to the same source, who said “they were quickly evacuated to medical facilities” at the Russian Defense Ministry.
However, “the perpetrators of the brutal massacre of the Russian journalist will inevitably receive the punishment they deserve,” Russian diplomacy promised in a press release, assuring that “those who supplied cluster munitions to their protégés in Kiev will also bear full responsibility.”
According to Moscow, it is a premeditated crime
“Everything indicates that the attack on the group of journalists was not accidental,” because according to the Russian ministry, “the journalists collected elements for a report on the bombing of settlements in the Zaporizhia region by militants of the Kiev regime with cluster munitions, which are banned in many countries around the world.”
At the same time, the Ukrainian cameraman Ievguen Chylko, who was shooting a report with a team from Deutsche Welle on the Ukrainian side 23 kilometers from the front, was injured “by fragments of Russian submunitions,” the television station said.