RIA Novosti’s Ivan Zuyev was slain while reporting from the front line

Russian war correspondent Ivan Zuyev has been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, his employer, RIA Novosti, announced on Thursday. Another journalist, Yury Voytkevich, was wounded and is in stable condition.

The incident occurred in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, north of Crimea, parts of which are held by Ukrainian forces, RIA said.

Dmitry Kiselev, the head of RIA’s parent company, Rossiya Segodnya, described Zuyev as a brave journalist who died in the line of duty. “He did a lot to report the truth from the warzone,” he said. 

Moscow condemned the attack. “Journalists have long been targets of Kiev’s terrorism,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Zuyev is the third RIA journalist to die during the conflict. In July 2023, a Ukrainian missile strike killed reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev and wounded three other correspondents. In August 2014, photojournalist Andrey Stenin was killed by Ukrainian forces while covering the insurgency in Donbass.