According to the report, Ukrainian nationalists tracked down the group of journalists and the accompanying service men while they were documenting their work on a road linking the Pologovsky and Vasilyevsky districts in the Zaporozhye region.

According to preliminary data collected by the Russian military, the attack was carried out with a Himars reactive missile delivery system with cluster munitions.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cluster munitions at the Russian journalists yesterday, and Rostislav Zhuravlev, a correspondent of the RIA Novosti news agency, was killed in the action.

Reporters Konstantin Mikhalchevsky, Roman Polshakov and Dmitry Shikov were also seriously wounded in the attack,

The Russian Embassy in the United States pointed out that Washington’s statements that the use of cluster bombs by the Kiev government would be “targeted and responsible” are lies.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova emphasized that the attack on the journalists was not accidental.

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