The occupiers are fighting against objective coverage of their war crimes in Ukraine - they kill and shoot at journalists. This was announced by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.

At least 35 journalists have already been injured, three killed.

“Journalist Viktor Dudar died during the fighting near Nikolaev. Live TV cameraman Evgeny Sakun died during rocket attacks in Kyiv. US citizen Brent Reno, video journalist, documentary maker, was killed at a checkpoint in Irpen, Kiev region,"

Denisova also noted that many journalists were injured from targeted attacks by the occupiers..

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“Two journalists of the Czech edition of Voxpot Maida Slamova and Vojtech Bogach came under fire from Russian troops. Two Danish correspondents for Ekstra-Bladet, journalist Stefan Weichert and photographer and reporter Emil Filtenborg Mikkelsen, received gunshot wounds,” Denisova said..

It is noted that the occupiers attacked the British television group Sky News - chief correspondent Stuart Ramsey and his four colleagues were returning to Kyiv when they were ambushed. The bullet hit Ramsey in the back, the cameraman Richie Mockler was saved by a bulletproof vest, which was shot twice.

“Under aimed fire, objects of the television infrastructure of Ukraine - the enemy tried to destroy the Kiev, Lutsk, Rivne TV towers, seized the TV towers and television studios in the temporarily occupied cities,” Denisova added..

According to her, the actions of the invaders are aimed at imposing Kremlin propaganda and ideology, as well as suppressing all other information resources..

“Killings and shelling of journalists are a flagrant violation of the Hague Convention and Declaration, the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Victims of War and its Additional Protocols and the Convention on the Laws and Customs of Dry Warfare, which establish security guarantees for journalists,” Denisova recalled..

She also called on international human rights organizations to take all possible measures to increase pressure on the Russian Federation to stop military aggression against Ukraine..

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Earlier it was reported that due to the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, 97 children were killed, more than 100 were injured.. As a result of bombing and shelling by the enemy, more than 400 educational institutions were damaged, 59 of them were completely destroyed..