Commenting on a report saying that Anna Prokovyeva, a military correspondent with Channel One, was killed while performing her professional duty in the Belgorod Region, Zakharova said: "Otherwise, correspondents would die on a large scale in a disaster. And today, the terrorist Kiev regime is exactly this disaster that deliberately targets both reporters and those international law norms that should have protected them."
Earlier on Wednesday, Channel One said Prokofyeva, 35, was killed by an enemy mine in the bordering area of Belgorod. Cameraman Dmitry Volkov, who accompanied her, was injured.
On Monday, Izvestia correspondent Alexander Fedorchak, along with a cameraman and a driver for the Zvezda TV channel, Andrey Panov and Alexander Sirkeli, were killed in a Ukrainian shelling attack on the rural settlement of Mikhailovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. Zvezda TV channel correspondent Nikita Goldin was also seriously wounded. Ukrainian forces targeted the car of the filming crew with HIMARS missiles.
The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation.