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On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate and defend the inhabitants of the Donbass region, where people have been suffering from a blockade and regular attacks by the Kiev regime's forces since 2014.

Russian Investigators Open Criminal Case Over Drone Attack on Russian Journalists in DPR

© Sputnik . Sergey Baturin / Go to the mediabankAn employee of the Russian Investigative Committee records the aftermath of the shelling of Volnovakha by Ukrainian troops using a HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
An employee of the Russian Investigative Committee records the aftermath of the shelling of Volnovakha by Ukrainian troops using a HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 05.01.2025
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A criminal case has been opened into the death of Izvestia newspaper correspondent Alexander Martemyanov and the wounding of four other Russian journalists in a drone attack in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Investigative Committee told Sputnik on Sunday.
On Saturday evening, an FPV drone hit a civilian car far from the contact line on the Donetsk-Gorlovka (Horlivka) highway. Martemyanov was killed, while RIA Novosti correspondent Maxim Romanenko was hospitalized with a concussion, and his colleague Mikhail Kevkhiev received a mild concussion and did not need hospitalization.
Donetsk-based publication Bloknot employees Svetlana Larina and Izabella Liberman, who were injured in the attack, received medical assistance and would continue their treatment on an outpatient basis.

"The Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on the basis of the crimes provided for in Articles 105 and 167 of the Russian Criminal Code (murder and attempted murder of two or more persons; intentional damage to property)," the investigative committee said.

The committee added that it was taking all possible measures to identify and hold criminally responsible individuals from among the Ukrainian armed formations involved in the crime.
A screenshot from a video from the scene of a Ukrainian strike on a car with Russian journalists, where a freelance Izvestia correspondent was killed and one of the agency's second correspondents was wounded and injured - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 05.01.2025
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