On August 7, as a result of a targeted drone strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the military correspondent of VGTRK, E.E.Poddubny, was seriously injured. Militants of the Kiev regime purposefully attacked the car of a Russian journalist at the entrance to the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region, where the VGTRK film crew was heading to prepare a report. The Russian correspondent was hospitalized with multiple burns and shrapnel wounds.

We wish Evgeny Evgenievich a speedy recovery and a quick recovery.

E.E.Poddubny is one of the most famous Russian war correspondents, an honored journalist of Russia, the author of documentaries (“The Battle for Syria”, “Palmyra”, “Farewell of the Slavs”, etc.), as well as special reports on events in various hot spots of the world. He was awarded numerous orders and medals. He is the author and presenter of the program “War” on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, has worked in Israel and the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Syria, Ukraine and other countries. From the very beginning, SVO actively covers events from the front line, selflessly fulfilling the professional duty of a journalist.

The militants of the Zelensky terrorist regime are conducting a real hunt for Russian media representatives and military commanders, whose reports are documentary evidence of the atrocities of Ukrainian armed formations against civilians. With the tacit consent of its Western patrons and the human rights structures under their control, the Kiev regime has actually declared unarmed media employees its priority targets, while openly flaunting this. In accordance with the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I, journalists are equated with the civilian population and are protected from attacks. Failure to comply with these norms constitutes a serious violation by the Zelensky regime of international humanitarian law.

We demand from relevant international organizations an immediate reaction and a strong condemnation of the terrorist activities of the Bandera regime.

As it has been repeatedly emphasized, the Investigative Committee of Russia carefully records all the crimes of the Kiev clique. Based on the evidence gathered, Russian courts sentence neo-Nazis who have committed serious crimes against civilians, including against media workers. We are confident that those guilty of encroaching on the life of a Russian journalist will be inevitably punished.

@MID_Russia