Russia is demanding the United Nations condemn Kyiv following an alleged drone attack that it claims killed a journalist working for a Russian outlet and injured several others. <\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Izvestia newspaper reported Saturday that its freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov died from his injuries after the drone hit the vehicle he was traveling in on the Donetsk-Horlivka highway, in Russian-occupied territory in eastern Ukraine. <\/p>\n
Denis Pushilin, the head of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR), where the incident allegedly took place, said Martemyanov had been returning from a reporting assignment in the city of Horlivka at the time. <\/p>\n
Pushilin said two journalists from the state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti and two from the pro-Russian publication Bloknot Donetsk who were in the car with Martemyanov had also been \u201clightly injured\u201d in the strike and were receiving medical assistance. <\/p>\n
Bloknot Donetsk said its journalists had survived by \u201cjumping out of the moving car\u201d and sustained shrapnel wounds, concussions, and bruises. <\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the incident \u201ca deliberate murder,\u201d and accused Kyiv of trying to \u201celiminate\u201d its \u201cideological opponents.\u201d <\/p>\n
She demanded the UN and other international organizations condemn Kyiv for the strike. \u201cAll those responsible for the crime against Russian journalists will be identified and will face deserved and inevitable punishment,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n
Russia would raise the issue at an upcoming UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Izvestia quoted Russia\u2019s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy as saying. <\/p>\n
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