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Russian journalist killed in drone attack

Jan 05, 2025

Moscow [Russia], January 5: A Russian war correspondent was killed and four other media workers injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Donetsk region, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday.
The drone struck a car carrying Russian journalists on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway, killing Alexander Martemyanov, a stringer for the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the report said.
"After filming the aftermath of the shelling in Gorlovka, we were returning to Donetsk. On the highway, a kamikaze drone struck our car," said RIA Novosti correspondent Maxim Romanenko, who was among the injured.
Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk region, said on Telegram that all injured journalists are receiving medical treatment.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said those attacks against Russian journalists will face "deserved and inevitable punishment."
Source: Xinhua News Agency

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