The war in Ukraine is intensifying. After the death of the journalist Zhuravlev, Moscow accuses Kiev of using cluster bombs. Russian journalist Rostislav Zhuravlev of the Ria Novosti news agency is the reporter who lost his life to artillery shells fired by Kiev forces in the Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine. This was written in Telegram by Yevgeny Balitsky, acting head of the Zaporizhia region. “Ria Novosti’s war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed by shelling from a civilian car from the town of Vasilyevka in the Zaporizhia region to the village of Vladimirovka,” Balitsky wrote.
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“During the evacuation, Rostislav Zhuravlev, a reporter for the RIA Novosti news agency, died from injuries sustained as a result of a cluster bomb explosion,” the agency for which he works said. RIA Novosti photojournalist Konstantin Mihalchevsky was also injured in the same attack. Izvestia correspondent Roman Polshakov and cameraman Dmitry Zhikov were wounded in a shelling by Ukrainian militants on July 22 in the area of a special military operation. The reporter suffered a broken leg and shrapnel wounds in his leg, abdomen and back. “The cameraman had shrapnel wounds and a fractured hip bone,” Ren TV reported.