The head of administration of the President of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov expressed his condolences to the family of the employee VGTRK Anton Voloshin, who was killed during a mortar attack near the city of Lugansk.

the journalist of " Vesti " Igor Korneluk died on Tuesday from the received damages under mortar fire near the city of Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine. The Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Lugansk people's Republic Vasily Nikitin said that aimed fire from mortars led the national guard under. The operator of " Vesti", Viktor Denisov, who also stayed in the place of the shooting, said that all the journalists were insignia With the inscription " media ". The Ukrainian side is their version of the past is not presented. Later on the Internet representative office of " News " came the confirmation of the death of engineer Anton Voloshin.

" With the deepest regret learned that messages About the tragic death of Anton Voloshin was confirmed, we Express our sincere condolences to his family and friends ", - quoted the words of Ivanov in the press-service of the Kremlin.


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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