VIENNA, June fifteen, Last news . Ukraine is the most dangerous region for journalists, said the assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for human rights Ivan ?imonovi? at the Symposium in Vienna on the first day of the week.

"We know that Ukraine remains the most dangerous place for reporters," said ?imonovi?.

However, He said that media workers in Ukraine are in danger not only in the combat area. He cited a recent example of the murder Olesya Elderberry.

"A journalist who had been critical of what is happening in Ukraine. So until now, and it is not clear what happened, " - said Simonovic.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 5 thousand people.

during the conflict were injured, lost his life and fell under the attacks of dozens of correspondents. The most high-profile cases involved the death of a Russian correspondent Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, who were killed in the result of mortar fire near the villages of Metalist and Peaceful near the city of Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine on 17 June 2014, as well as special photographer MIA "Russia today" Andrew Stenina, who died on August 6 in the region of Donetsk - the car in which He was riding on an editorial assignment, was shot and burned on the highway. Wide publicity has been a murder near his home in Kiev, famous Ukrainian journalist Olesya Elder, who wrote, among them, for Internet representation of the ria. EN.
June 3 in the area of Marinci has been a serious battle, the victims of which, according to the UN, became 34. The military has accused the militia in the attack, the same called statements of Kiev speculation. Authorized self-proclaimed republics said that the Ukrainian Military continues to pull to the contact line of heavy equipment and jet systems of volley fire, and the intensity of the attacks increased. The authorities DND and LNR pushing that War had brought heavy weapons to a safe distance, regulated by the Minsk agreements. Read


June 14, a Journalist for Agence France Press Alexander Hayuk, a citizen of the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk, was wounded in the leg at the time of firing in the area. June 12, reporters Luhansk information center came under fire from the military power of Ukraine. The explosion occurred in 10-15 metres from correspondents, a shell exploded between 2 concrete blocks that had saved them from splash damage.

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