Moscow, Oct. 17 -- A Russian war correspondent was killed and another injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia region while carrying out a journalistic assignment, Russia's state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.
Ivan Zuyev, a journalist with RIA Novosti, was killed on Thursday while on assignment, and his colleague Yuri Voitkevich sustained serious injuries, said the agency.
"Ivan is gone. This is our third loss among our corps of military correspondents," said Dmitry Kiselev, general director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group. "He was an extremely experienced and talented journalist."Previously, RIA Novosti correspondents Andrei Stenin and Rostislav Zhuravlev were killed separately in 2014 and 2023.
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