On November 17, as a result of a targeted attack by UAVs of the armed formations of the Kiev regime on the territory of the village of Bolshoe Soldatskoye, Kursk region, the editor-in-chief of the Narodnaya Gazeta, Yu.N.Kuznetsova, was killed in the line of duty. The Ukrainian Nazis dropped ammunition from a drone onto a car that was used to take out archival files of the editorial office. As a result of the explosion, the operator of the electronic typesetting and layout 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 Y.N.Kuznetsova, who died while performing her professional duty. We wish the injured a speedy recovery and a quick recovery.
This cold-blooded murder is another evidence of the ugly and pathologically criminal nature of the Zelensky regime, its willingness to use bloody terrorist methods against civilians, representatives of civil services and media employees. At the same time, the Ukronazis are really hunting for journalists covering events on the front line. Only this year, military commanders S.N.Eremin, V.A.Kozhin and N.N.Tsitsagi became victims of targeted attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 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 the Western curators of the Nazi clique in In Kiev and their deliberate silencing by relevant international organizations and human rights structures. Another eloquent evidence of such a politically biased and deeply immoral approach is the recently published draft report by UNESCO Director General O.The report on the safety of journalists and the problem of impunity for 2022-2023, which ignored the data officially provided by the Russian side on journalists killed during the specified period. This publication will be the subject of a detailed review during the 34th session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Communication Development Program scheduled for November 21-22.
In the same row are cynical statements by representatives of the Office of the United Nations 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 caused by the fact that Russia “did not provide access” to confirm this information. It is outrageous how such pretentious scrupulousness is combined with the involvement of the aforementioned and similar human rights mechanisms in large-scale disinformation campaigns by the West and its Ukrainian wards against Russia, when any insinuations are immediately broadcast by such “human rights defenders” as value judgments.
We consider it necessary to clarify once again: the very formulation of the issue of “lack of access” does not stand up to criticism, since the text of the official request of OHCHR for its staff to visit the Kursk region was drafted in a provocative and politically biased manner – they say, human rights violations will be investigated “as a result of Ukraine’s response to Russia’s armed aggression.” That is, there was not even a hint of an objective and impartial approach a priori. Not to mention the fact that OHCHR conducts its “investigations” according to a methodology developed by itself, when victims are asked questions leading to the answers “necessary” for Management.
Currently, the Russian competent authorities are conducting investigative actions aimed at establishing and bringing to justice all representatives of the Ukrainian armed formations involved in the murder of Yu.N.Kuznetsova, qualified as a terrorist act, as provided for by law.
Once again, we emphasize that all those responsible for the murder of a Russian journalist will receive a well-deserved and inevitable punishment.
