One Russian Journalist Killed, Three Others Injured in Ukrainian Cluster-Bomb Attack
This article originally appeared on Leo Hohmann’s Substack and was republished with permission.
Russian journalist Rostislav Zhuravlev (pictured above) has been killed and three other journalists injured near the front line in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, Russia’s defense ministry said, as Moscow accused Kiev of using cluster munitions supplied by the United States this month in the attack.
Zhuravlev, a war correspondent for Russia’s RIA news agency, was killed and three other Russian journalists were wounded in a Ukrainian artillery attack on Saturday, July 22, the Russian defense ministry said, adding that they were evacuated from the battlefield but Zhuravlev died during the journey.
Zhuravlev was under the employ of Russia’s RIA Novosti when he,