MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian warfare correspondent Semyon Eremin, who labored for the Russian day by day Izvestia, was killed on Friday in a Ukrainian drone assault in southeastern Ukraine, the newspaper mentioned.
Izvestia mentioned Eremin, 42, died of wounds suffered when a Ukrainian drone attacked whereas he was getting back from a visit to a Russian unit within the Zaporizhzhia area.
“Izvestia warfare correspondent Semyon Eremin was killed on April 19 throughout an assault by Ukrainian FPV drones within the Zaporizhzhia course the place he had gone to movie a report,” Izvestia mentioned.
His final report was about Russia’s facet of the drone warfare, Izvestia mentioned.
There was no fast remark from Ukraine.
Russia’s international ministry referred to as the killing an “act of revenge for the trustworthy efficiency of journalistic responsibility”.
It urged the “related” worldwide organisations and human rights defenders to sentence what it described because the “merciless homicide” of yet one more Russian journalist.
Izvestia mentioned Eremin had despatched studies from lots of the hottest battles in Ukraine’s japanese areas throughout the 25-month-old warfare, together with Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops for almost three months in 2022.
He had additionally reported from Maryinka and Vuhledar, cities on the centre of many months of heavy preventing.
Intense drone and artillery battles – together with punitive restrictions on journalists on either side of the 1000 km (600 mile) entrance – have made the Ukraine warfare very harmful and really troublesome to cowl.
Not less than 15 journalists have been killed within the warfare in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, based on the Committee to Shield Journalists, a nonprofit group that promotes press freedom worldwide.
