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Russian state newspaper Izvestia reported that one of its freelance journalists was killed during a drone strike near the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow has accused the Ukrainian military of deliberately targeting Alexander Martemyanov.
"Izvestia" said that a civilian vehicle carrying Martemyanov was hit while traveling on a highway in an area occupied by Russia, the BBC reports.
Five other media workers were reportedly injured in the same attack.
"The Ukrainian army launched a drone attack on a civilian car carrying the freelance correspondent of Izvestia, Alexander Martemyanov. The car was located far from the contact line ," the Russian newspaper wrote.
The vehicle was returning from bombing in the Russian-controlled city of Gorlivka when it was hit, Russian state news agency RIA reported. While two RIA journalists were injured in the attack.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the incident a "deliberate killing."
In a statement, she described it as "another brutal crime in a series of bloody atrocities" committed by the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The EU blocked Russian outlets including Izvestia and RIA in May, accusing them of enabling "the spread and support of Russian propaganda and the war of aggression against Ukraine".
The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 15 journalists have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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