Residence of the Ambassador of the USA to Russia expressed his condolences in connection with death of correspondents
Residence of the Ambassador of the USA to Russia expressed his condolences in connection with death of the VGTRK correspondent in Ukraine. " Our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the victims of the VGTRK correspondent Igor Igor and Anton Voloshin ", - is informed in the report of the Embassy, published in Twitter. Before Wednesday, the authorized state Department Jen Psaki said that the U.S. state Department consider it premature to Express condolences to the families of those killed in the East of Ukraine employees VGTRK due to insufficient details of the incident. Remember, VGTRK journalist Igor Korneluk on Tuesday received a serious wound near the city of Lugansk and died on the operating table. In the evening of the same day VGTRK agreed death of engineer Anton Voloshin. The film crew was working on the front line: being very close to one of the checkpoints Between towns Metalist and peace, filmed, as Lugansk militia evacuate locals from the area mortar fire. A cameraman Viktor Denisov, who managed to escape from under mortar fire, said that the journalists were the identification marks of the media. Around midnight on Tuesday, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin in a telephone conversation with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said about the need to provide security correspondents. Poroshenko with his hand upon the request of the OSCE ordered to take proceedings of the death of Igor's. Later for a thorough investigation tried to persuade the UN security Council. At the same time, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case under the criminal code according to section " Murder " on the fact of death of Igor Igor near the city of Lugansk. However, the SBU said that the deceased journalist was not allowed at the workplace, and the permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN Yuriy Sergeyev called all, though the correspondents themselves are guilty, lost his life during the shooting.