The General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeyev called the day of farewell to the journalist of the organization Igor Igor's the worst day in the history of VGTRK.

the journalist of " Vesti " Igor Korneluk and video engineer Anton Voloshin were killed by mortar fire near the villages of Metalist and Peaceful 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 Ukrainian side is their version of the incident was not during the day. First of murder of the correspondent has recognized illegal in the United Nations and other international, non-governmental and human rights organizations.

" Today is probably the most difficult day in the history of VGTRK, in the history of our organization. Such a calamity never was - the death of our loved ones, our colleagues, " said Dobrodeyev during the event farewell to Igor.

according to him, for the guys who worked in the South-East of Ukraine, their stories were not only a " picture ", " it was true ".

The General Director of VGTRK expressed from all colleagues words of deepest condolences to the parents, mothers, fathers, widows ".

" We are all his whole life will be always close to you ", - noted he.


the VGTRK journalist Igor Korneluk shortly before the shelling of Lugansk, which received a fatal wound, made, in which he reported about that to the city nominated tanks, APCS and heavy armament. He also said that the shelling of the area " Metalist ", where the position of Lugansk militia of the people's Republic lasted all night, and was already starting irregular supply of products and medicines and medical equipment. Read more in
on June 16, under the Slavic unidentified, which included a photographer Last news Andrei Stenin, a freelance worker videoamanda Ruptly Russian RT Andrew and getting settled at the journalists of the newspaper " Komsomolskaya Pravda " Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin. As a result of bombardment nobody has suffered.

on June 14, television channel " Star " said About the detention of their correspondents in Ukraine. Journalist Evgeny Davydov and sound engineer Nikita Konashenkov were caught in Dnepropetrovsk, they kept the Workers of the security service of Ukraine. on June 16, reporters were released and flew to the capital of Russia. About other cases of emergency with the Russian media in Ukraine, see

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