🗓 On December 15, Russia marks the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty.

The day was established by the Union of Journalists of Russia in 1991

On that day, we commemorate talented and selfless reporters, photojournalists and television cameramen who died while doing their dangerous jobs.

💬 Maria Zakharova: Every year, new names are added to the grim list of media professionals who have died prematurely and undeservedly. Regrettably, the outgoing year 2022 was no exception. Darya Dugina died in a barbaric and cruel terrorist attack staged by Ukrainian subversives. Oleg Klokov was killed during a deliberate Ukrainian missile attack at a peaceful evacuation convoy in Kherson. Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin, Andrey Stenin, Anatoly Klyan and many other journalists were killed before them.

We will never forget them, and we will not stop until those guilty of their death get the punishment they deserve.

Responsibility for their deaths, just as the deaths of many other journalists who lost their lives in the line of duty, does not lie only with those who killed them. The blame also lies with those, including highly placed persons at respected international organisations, who must act objectively and work hard to ensure the safety of journalists and to demand this from the Kiev regime, which is drunk with impunity, those who are self-consciously keeping silent, pretending that nothing happened.

❗️ But we will not allow them to draw the curtain over these crimes.