Three Russian journalists were killed and several others injured in what Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has described as deliberate and targeted Ukrainian attacks on media crews reporting from Russia’s Kursk Region and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).
According to Moscow, Ukrainian forces launched a “precision-guided artillery strike” on a civilian vehicle in the LPR marked as press transport on Monday. The attack claimed the lives of Aleksandr Fedorchak, a reporter for Izvestia; Andrey Panov, a cameraman for Zvezda TV; and their driver, Aleksandr Sirekli. Another Zvezda correspondent, Nikolai Goldin, was seriously wounded in the same incident.
In a separate attack on the same day, TASS reporter Mikhail Skuratov was injured by shrapnel while on assignment in the Sudzhanskiy district of Kursk Region, which borders Ukraine.