- Title: Russia's reporter killed in drone strike was buried in eastern Ukraine
- Date: 8th January 2025
- Summary: MEDALS ON RED CUSHIONS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE HOLDING FLOWERS MEN BRINGING AND SETTLE COFFIN FOR LAST RESPECTS MAN HOLDING FUNERAL WREATH / VARIOUS OF PEOPLE STANDING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS IN COFFIN MARTEMYANOV IN COFFIN PEOPLE STANDING DURING FUNERAL CEREMONY, MAN HOLDING FUNERAL WREATH FUNERAL WREATH DISABLED MILITARY TOUCHS MARTEMYANOV AND SALUTES MARTEMYANOV'S PA
- Embargoed: 22nd January 2025 13:04
- Keywords: FUNERAL IZVESTIA JOURNALIST UKRAINE CRISIS
- Location: DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE
- City: DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA002168808012025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:The body of Russian journalist Alexander Martemyanov was buried on Wednesday (January 8) in the Alley of Heroes burual ground in Russian occupied Donetsk.
Martemyanov, who worked for Russian media outfit Izvestia, was killed in a drone strike on a highway while travelling by car from Horlivka to Donetsk in a Russian controlled reagion of eastern Ukraine.
Izvestia had reported on Saturday (January 4) that a Ukrainian drone strike had killed its reporter near Donetsk.
"The Ukrainian army launched a drone strike on a civilian car carrying Izvestia's freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov," the daily reported on its Telegram channel, "The car was located far from the line of contact."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing on her ministry's website, denounced the incident as "deliberate murder."
Zakharova described it as "another brutal crime in a series of bloody atrocities" of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government "which openly resorts to terrorist methods to eliminate its ideological opponents."
Russia's RIA news agency said two of its correspondents traveling with Martemyanov were injured in the incident, along with two journalists working for a local publication in Donetsk. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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