On February 14, in the village of Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Sudzha District, Kursk Region, a Channel One film crew was subjected to a targeted attack by a Kiev regime’s UAV. As a result of the drone dropping an explosive munition, Channel One cameraman Yury Sholmov was seriously injured. He received the first necessary medical treatment at the Kursk Regional Clinical Hospital. The question of transporting the injured media worker to Moscow is being considered.
We wish Yury a speedy recovery.
Another attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russian journalists has added to the list of Zelensky regime’s bloody crimes against civilians, to which media personnel are equated under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I.
By targeting unarmed war correspondents, journalists, cameramen, photographers and organising a real hunt for them, the Ukro-Nazis are trying to hide the truth about their brutal violations of international humanitarian law and atrocities against civilians by any means possible.
We call on all responsible governments to condemn the terrorist acts of the Kiev regime and to publicly oppose the attacks of the Ukrainian armed forces against civilians, including members of the media.
We demand that the relevant international organisations, first and foremost UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Jan Braathu, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and other supranational human rights bodies immediately react to yet another heinous crime by the Kiev regime and resolutely condemn it. They must take exhaustive measures aimed at putting an end to the systematic terrorist methods of suppressing dissent practised by the Ukro-Bandera clique. Further silence of these crimes on the part of international officials will in fact mean covering them up and encouraging the Kiev regime to commit further attacks.
Those guilty of the attempt on the life of the Russian journalist will be established and face the deserved and unavoidable punishment.
