⚡️ Commentary by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova in connection with the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Narodnaya Gazeta Yu.N. Kuznetsova (November 18, 2024)

▪️On November 17, as a result of a targeted attack by a UAV of the armed formations of the Kyiv regime in the village of Bolshoe Soldatskoye in the Kursk region, the editor-in-chief of the Narodnaya Gazeta Yu.N. Kuznetsova was killed while on duty.

Ukrainian Nazis dropped a munition from a drone onto a car that was transporting the editorial office's archive files. As a result of the explosion, the operator of the electronic typesetting and layout department of the Narodnaya Gazeta and the law enforcement officer accompanying them also received injuries of varying severity.

We express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Yu.N. Kuznetsova, who died while performing her professional duty. We wish the victims a speedy recovery and rapid rehabilitation.

❗️This cold-blooded murder is yet another example of the ugly and pathologically criminal nature of the Zelensky regime, its readiness to use bloody terrorist methods against civilians, representatives of civil services and media workers. At the same time, the Ukrainian Nazis are hunting journalists covering events on the front lines. This year alone, war correspondents S.N.Eremin, V.A.Kozhin and N.N.Tsitsagi have fallen victim to targeted strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while A.S.Ivliev and E.E.Poddubny were seriously injured.

🤐 A series of brutal reprisals against Russian journalists and attempts on their lives is a direct consequence of the cover-up of these crimes by Western curators of the Nazi clique in Kyiv and their deliberate hushing up by specialized international organizations and human rights structures.

Another eloquent testimony to such a politically biased and deeply immoral approach is the recently published draft report of UNESCO Director-General O. Azoulay on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity for 2022-2023, which ignores the officially presented data from the Russian side on journalists killed during the specified period. <...>

In the same vein are the cynical statements of representatives of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). According to them, the lack of reaction from the High Commissioner and various special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council to numerous facts of crimes against Russian journalists is due to the fact that Russia "did not provide access" to confirm this information. <...>

☝️ Currently, Russian competent agencies are conducting investigative actions aimed at establishing and bringing to justice as provided by law all representatives of the Ukrainian armed formations involved in the murder of Yu.N. Kuznetsova, qualified as a terrorist act.

Once again we emphasize that all those guilty of the murder of the Russian journalist will receive a deserved and inevitable punishment.
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