The Russian media outlet Izvestia mentioned on Saturday {that a} Ukrainian drone strike killed its reporter close to the town of Donetsk in jap Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian military launched a drone strike on a civilian automotive carrying Izvestia’s freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov,” the each day reported on its Telegram channel.
“The automotive was situated removed from the road of contact.”
Izvestia mentioned the automotive was travelling on a freeway linking Donetsk, the Russian-held foremost city of Donetsk area, and the town of Horlivka to the north.
Information beforehand supplied by the Committee to Defend Journalists counted at the very least 15 journalists killed since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s RIA information company mentioned two of its correspondents travelling with Martemyanov have been injured within the incident, together with two journalists working for a neighborhood publication in Donetsk.
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