Russian journalists killed by Ukrainian strike

Three members of a Russian news crew have been killed in a Ukrainian attack while reporting from the Lugansk People’s Republic on Monday.

The attack claimed the lives of Aleksandr Fedorchak, a reporter for Izvestia; Andrey Panov, a cameraman for Zvezda TV; and their driver, Aleksandr Sirekli. Their vehicle was reportedly struck by two missiles fired from a US-supplied Ukrainian HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system. Another journalist was critically wounded in the attack, according to Russian media reports.

“A civilian vehicle carrying journalists was targeted by two HIMARS missiles,” Zvezda said in a statement.

The incident is “yet another terrible loss for our team,” Izvestia’s director, Vladimir Tyulin, said. Earlier this year, a freelance reporter for the newspaper, Aleksandr Martemyanov, was killed in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic when the civilian vehicle he was in was attacked by a Ukrainian drone…