Russian newspaper says its reporter killed by Ukraine drone strike

Russian authorities paper Izvestia says 1 of its freelance reporters has been killed successful a drone onslaught adjacent the Russian-occupied metropolis of Donetsk successful eastbound Ukraine.

Moscow has accused Ukraine's subject of deliberately targeting Alexander Martemyanov. Ukraine has not commented.

Izvestia said a civilian conveyance carrying Martemyanov was struck arsenic it travelled connected a road successful a Russian-occupied zone.

Five different media workers were reportedly injured successful the aforesaid attack.

"The Ukrainian service launched a drone onslaught connected a civilian car carrying Izvestia's freelance analogous Alexander Martemyanov," the quality outlet reported connected its Telegram channel.

"The car was located acold from the enactment of contact."

The conveyance was returning from covering shelling successful the Russian-held metropolis of Gorlivka erstwhile it was hit, Russia's authorities RIA quality bureau said.

Two RIA journalists were wounded successful the attack, the bureau added.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the incidental "deliberate murder".

In a statement, she described it arsenic "another brutal transgression successful a bid of bloody atrocities" carried retired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's government.

The EU blocked Russian outlets - including Izvestia and RIA - successful May, accusing them of enabling the "spread and enactment the Russian propaganda and warfare of aggression against Ukraine".

The Committee to Protect Journalists says astatine slightest 15 journalists person been killed since Russia's full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.