MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces tracked Russian reporters using drones, so their killing was in fact a premeditated murder, military expert Vitaly Kiselyov told the Soloviev Live talk show.
"The attack was carefully planned. They monitored the reporters, using drones. They conducted reconnaissance and as they could predict their location, they fired a HIMARS rocket there," the expert said.
According to Kiselyov, Ukrainian troops have frequently attacked agricultural vehicles in the Svatovo and Kremennaya directions of late. "This, too, shows that the Kiev junta cannot come to terms with the fact that they have lost these territories," he argued.
Earlier reports said, Izvestia correspondent Alexander Fedorchak, as well as a cameraman and a driver for the Zvezda TV channel, Andrey Panov and Alexander Sirkeli, respectively, were killed in a shelling attack in the Lugansk People’s Republic. TASS reporter Mikhail Skuratov sustained shrapnel wounds while on a mission in the Sudzha district of the Kursk Region, and his life is not in danger.