Overview
- RIA Novosti reported that war correspondent Ivan Zuyev was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike while on assignment in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.
- RIA said colleague Yuri Voitkevich sustained serious injuries in the same strike.
- TASS quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calling for UNESCO, the OSCE media representative, and the UN human rights chief to denounce the killing and pursue accountability.
- Rossiya Segodnya chief Dmitry Kiselev called Zuyev the group’s third military correspondent lost, following earlier deaths of Andrei Stenin and Rostislav Zhuravlev.
- Reuters has tallied at least 18 journalists killed in the combat zone since 2022, and the European Federation of Journalists recently reported French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed by a Russian drone.