The EU regrets the wound reporters from the Russian Federation and requires investigation

Vladimir Dobrovolskiy. The European Union agitating for an independent investigation of all cases of violation of the rights of correspondent reported referring to the official envoy of the head of the diplomacy of the EU Catherine Ashton.

" We regret about the incident, during which on Tuesday was damaged the health of two Russian journalist, a few days after the death of Russian journalist Anatoly Clan, which demonstrates the seriousness of the situation in Eastern Ukraine, " said the communique.

While the Commissioner of the head of European diplomacy added that another example is the recent arrest of 2 Ukrainian correspondents for two days in Lugansk region.

" Security correspondents is the fundamental basis of the right to freedom of the media, We call on all parties not to break it. We also call for an independent investigation of all, not so long ago announced cases of human rights violations, " said the Commissioner Ashton.

in the night of Monday, the operator of the First channel 68-year-old Anatoly Clan died, having come under fire near Donetsk Together with colleagues from other channels. He became the third died in Ukraine journalist: first in Moscow to bid farewell to the dead on June 17, correspondent of " Vesti " Igor Igor's and engineer VGTRK Anton Voloshin, They were buried at the cemetery Troekurov. Correspondents were killed by mortar fire near the villages of Metalist and Peaceful near the city of Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine.

In proshedshiy Tuesday in the Lugansk region were damaged body journalist REN TV Denis Kulaga and cameraman Vadim Yudin. Near the journalist exploded shell, He heard nothing, received a contusion and the operator.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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