Five correspondents lost his life in Ukraine for the period from January
Five media workers lost their lives in the Ukraine for the period from January this year in the performance of their work, said Last news on Wednesday the head of the Bureau for Eastern Europe and Central Asia non-governmental organization " reporters without borders " Johann bir (Johann Bihr).
the journalist of " Vesti " Igor Korneluk and video engineer Anton Voloshin were killed by mortar fire near the villages of Metalist and Peaceful near the city of Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine. The Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Lugansk people's Republic Vasily Nikitin said that aimed fire from mortars led the national guard under. The Ukrainian side is their version of the incident was not during the day. First of murder of the correspondent has recognized illegal in the United Nations and other international, non-governmental and human rights organizations.
" the number of media professionals killed in Ukraine in connection with their work rose to five for the period from January of this year, " said bir.
in addition, bir tried to convince the Ukrainian authorities to stop the obstruction of the activities of the Russian correspondents." We Also urge the Ukrainian authorities to take on your own shoulders the responsibility and respect the work of correspondents, to stop the obstruction of movement in the country Russian correspondents and give Russian journalists to cover the events in the country, (and) to stop to detain those who are not accredited to the government in Kiev is not a reason to arrest them, " said bir.
According to the messenger, " Reporters without borders ", for all the world's important reliable data On what is happening in Ukraine." at stake is the right of local residents and the international brotherhood of data About what is happening, " said bir.
According to information available on the Internet representation of the organization in the number of five dead correspondents are Italian photographer Andrea Rockelli and its assistant Andrey Mironov, journalist of the Ukrainian newspaper " Vesti " Vyacheslav Veremiy, Russian journalist Igor Korneluk and video engineer Anton Voloshin.
the VGTRK journalist Igor Korneluk shortly before the shelling of Lugansk, which received a fatal wound, made, in which he reported about that to the city nominated tanks, armored vehicles and heavy armament. He also said that the shelling of the area " Metalist ", where the position of Lugansk militia of the people's Republic lasted all night, and was already starting irregular supply of products and medicines and medical equipment. Read more in
on June 16, under the Slavic unidentified, which included a photographer Last news Andrei Stenin, a freelance worker videoamanda Ruptly Russian RT Andrew and getting settled at the journalists of the newspaper " Komsomolskaya Pravda " Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin. As a result of bombardment nobody has suffered.
on June 14, television channel " Star " said About the detention of their correspondents in Ukraine. Journalist Evgeny Davydov and sound engineer Nikita Konashenkov were caught in Dnepropetrovsk, they kept the Workers of the security service of Ukraine. on June 16, reporters were released and flew to the capital of Russia. About other cases of emergency with the Russian media in Ukraine, see
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