- Title: Mourners in Crimea bid farewell to war-journalist killed in Ukraine
- Date: 28th March 2025
- Summary: BEIRUT’S SOUTHERN SUBURBS, LEBANON (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TRACTOR REMOVING RUBBLE FROM THE SITE OF ISRAELI STRIKE IN BEIRUT'S SOUTHERN SUBURBS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) BEIRUT’S SOUTHERN SUBURBS RESIDENT, UMM (MOTHER OF) AHMED (SURNAME NOT GIVEN), SAYING: "We were at home, me, my mother, my children, my siblings - 20 persons. They threatened the building and we i
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- Keywords: Crimea Russia Simferopol Ukraine conflict funeral journalist
- Location: SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA
- City: SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA
- Country: Crimea
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001239828032025RP1
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- Story Text: Relatives, friends and colleagues of Izvestia war-journalist Alexander Fedorchak, who was killed in Eastern Ukraine, gathered on Friday (March 28) in Crimean town of Simferopol to pay their last respects.
A targeted Ukrainian artillery strike on Monday killed six people including two journalists and their driver who were on assignment in Moscow-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk region, Russian authorities and media said.
The attack killed Alexander Fedorchak, a war correspondent from Russia's Izvestia media outlet, as well as camera operator Andrei Panov and driver Alexander Sirkeli who worked for the Zvezda television channel, the Russian foreign ministry said.
The attacks came at the same time Russian and American negotiators were meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss a potential partial ceasefire in the three-year-old war that Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour.
With the Kremlin's tight control of information about its military actions in Ukraine, Russian war correspondents have been key in disseminating news about the war.
Izvestia, a pro-Kremlin news outlet, said Fedorchak had gone into Luhansk region after reporting from the Kupiansk area in neighboring Kharkiv region, one of the areas where Russian forces have made advances in recent months. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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