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Russia declared today that it will find and punish those responsible for the death of the war correspondent of the Russian agency RIA Novosti Iván Zoyaev, 39 years old, who died on Thursday after being hit by a drone in Zaporizhzhia, one of the Ukrainian regions annexed by Moscow.
"Those responsible for the death of the Russian journalist will necessarily be identified and will suffer the deserved and inevitable punishment," said the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova.
The diplomat demanded that international organizations condemn "this new crime of the Kiev regime" and stated that Russia will pressure for "a legal assessment of this premeditated murder and other crimes by the Kiev junta against civilians."
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Ukraine "often consciously hunts journalists," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who added that it is "a crime and, of course, those responsible must be punished." A colleague of Zuyev, Yuri Voitkevich, was injured in the same attack. RIA Novosti highlighted that both correspondents, who had been working at the media outlet for years, had been decorated for reporting on war conflicts previously.Since the beginning of the war, several Russian journalists and correspondents have lost their lives.
Last April, a correspondent from the Russian channel Zvezdá, Nikita Goldin, lost his life after the impact of a HIMARS missile in the Ukrainian region of Lugansk, also annexed by Russia. Two days later, Anna Prokofieva, a war reporter for Channel One, died from a mine explosion in the Russian region of Belgorod.
