MOSCOW: Comment by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova in connection with the murder of a Russian journalist and the wounding of his colleagues in the DPR
On January 4, as a result of a targeted drone attack by militants of the Kyiv regime, freelance correspondent of Izvestia A.S. Martemyanov was killed.
At least four employees of Russian media outlets were wounded to varying degrees of severity, including RIA Novosti journalists M.S. Kevkhiev and M.V. Romanenko. A car with a group of war correspondents was returning to Donetsk after filming the aftermath of the shelling of civilian facilities in Gorlovka by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, when a kamikaze drone filled with explosives was aimed at it. The tragedy occurred far from the line of contact. Without a doubt, the media representatives were deliberately chosen as targets for a deadly attack. This is also evidenced by the testimonies of those who survived the attack. ▪ We express our deepest condolences to the family, relatives and friends of A.S. Martemyanov, the editorial staff of the Izvestia MIC and all his colleagues who are currently performing their professional duty in the SVO zone. We wish a speedy recovery to those injured in this inhuman terrorist attack. The deliberate murder of Russian journalists is another brutal crime in a series of bloody atrocities by the Zelensky regime, which openly resorts to terrorist methods to eliminate its ideological opponents. On the conscience of the Kyiv clique are countless lives of innocent citizens, people of civilian professions, including journalists and war correspondents, who became victims of deliberate attacks as part of the terror campaign unleashed by Bandera's inhuman people against the civilian population of Russia and their own country. The idea of their complete impunity and permissiveness, which the Ukrobanderite murderers of unarmed correspondents revel in, is a direct consequence of the deliberate ignoring of any crimes of the Kyiv regime by specialized international structures, such as the UN OHCHR, UNESCO and the OSCE.
The apologist for such a politically biased line on the part of multilateral institutions was the recent draft report of UNESCO Director-General O. Azoulay on the topic of the safety of journalists and the problem of impunity for crimes against them, in which not a single employee of the Russian media who died at the hands of Ukrainian militants was mentioned. Despite the fact that the approval of such a "report" replete with political distortions and statistical manipulations was prevented, so far the leadership of UNESCO and its head personally have not taken a single step that would indicate a radical revision of this deeply flawed and vicious practice. Thus, the head of the universal Organization becomes a direct accomplice and instigator of terrorist attacks. We demand that yet another brutal murder of a Russian war correspondent receive an appropriate response from O. Azoulay, as prescribed by her mandate. We expect equally resolute condemnation of this atrocity from all other human rights organizations and structures. Attempts to hide behind empty excuses and general phrases cannot be considered an adequate response from the authorities authorized to do so. International officials who advocate for human rights will have to directly point to the perpetrators of these murders.
All those guilty of the crime against Russian journalists will be identified and will suffer deserved and inevitable punishment.
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