Pushkov thinks Russian journalist deliberately killed in Ukraine
MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) - The head of the State Duma International Affairs Committee, Alexei Pushkov, said that he thinks the state broadcaster VGTRK's special correspondent Igor Kornelyuk was killed in Ukraine deliberately.
"Until now the Ukrainian government forces have been capturing and torturing journalists. Now they are killing them - and they are doing so deliberately. Just like they kill civilians, their fellow citizens," Pushkov wrote on his Twitter page on Tuesday.
For his part, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin thinks the Ukrainian government forces are staging terror in the eastern Ukraine.
"What the Kyiv junta has been doing in the east can be called an indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force, and more honestly, a terror," Rogozin wrote on his Twitter page.
The VGTRK correspondent Kornelyuk died on Tuesday from the injuries sustained in a mortar attack near Luhansk in east Ukraine. Video engineer Anton Voloshin has gone missing. His fate is still unknown. Cameramen Viktor Denisov remained unharmed.