Russia Demands UN Condemn Kyiv Over Alleged Drone Attack
Russia is demanding that 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. The attack allegedly occurred on the Donetsk-Horlivka highway, in Russian-occupied territory in eastern Ukraine.
According to Russia’s Izvestia newspaper, freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov died from his injuries after the drone hit the vehicle he was traveling in. Russian authorities and media have blamed Ukraine’s armed forces for the alleged drone attack. Ukraine has not yet publicly commented on the incident.
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 were also injured in the strike, with one outlet reporting that they had survived by “jumping out of the moving car” and sustaining shrapnel wounds, concussions, and bruises.
Russian officials have accused Ukraine of trying to “eliminate” its “ideological opponents” and demanded that the UN and other international organizations condemn Kyiv for the strike. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the incident “a deliberate murder” and vowed to identify and punish those responsible.
Russia plans to raise the issue at an upcoming UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, with Izvestia quoting Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy as saying that “all those responsible for the crime against Russian journalists will be identified and will face deserved and inevitable punishment.”
