Comment of the Russian Permanent Mission to the OSCE on the murder of Russian journalist Semyon Yeryomin, 25 April 2024

Comment

of the Russian Permanent Mission to the OSCE

on the murder of Russian journalist

Semyon Yeryomin

On 19 April, as a result of a targeted attack by armed formations of the Kiew regime using UAVs in the Zaporozhya region, Semyon Yeryomin, a military correspondent of the media oulet Izvestia, was killed while performing his professional duty.

Russian journalists have long been regarded by the Nazi clique in Kiew as a priority target for terrorist attacks, because it is they who, through their courageous reports, bring to the world audience the truth about the real situation on the ground in the zone of Russia´s Special Military Operation, as well as the numerous crimes by the Kiew regime and its armed formations. Having failed to achieve any long-awaited successes on the battlefield for their Western sponsors, the NATO puppets in Kiew have thrown all their energies into eliminating inconvenient voices among those who make a real and noticeable contribution to debunking the myths of Ukrainian and Western propaganda.

We demand that the relevant OSCE executive structures finally deviate from the politicisation of the media agenda and «double standards» in assessing crimes against journalists. This deliberate massacre of a correspondent should be strongly condemned. We reiterate that we consider the shameful silence on the high-profile murders of other representatives of the Russian media, including Daria Dugina, Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), Oleg Klokov, Rostislav Zhuravlevlev and Boris Maksudov, who were killed in the performance of their professional duty, to be unacceptable. We regard the lack of reaction as indulgence to further, even more cynical and inhuman atrocities by Kiew and as a statement that the lives and safety of Russian correspondents are placed by OSCE functionaries below the lives of journalists from other countries.

We call on the OSCE participating States to support the unbiased approach that all cases of murders, attempts on the lives and persecution of reporters must be subject to immediate condemnation and censure regardless of their nationality and citizenship. Perpetrators of offences against journalists must be held accountable.