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Russian state journalist killed by ‘stray bullet’ at Crimea base | Russia-Ukraine war News

Svetlana Babayeva is the head of the Rossiya Segodnya media group’s office in Simferopol, Crimea’s second largest city.

A Russian female journalist working for a leading media group backed by the Kremlin Moscow officials and state media have reported being killed in a shooting at a military training site in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Svetlana Babayeva, who was killed Friday, heads the offices of Russian state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya in Simferopol, the second-largest city on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

RIA Novosti, a Russian news agency and a subsidiary of Rossiya Segodnya, reported on Friday that Babayeva was killed by a stray bullet during a shooting practice at a military training ground.

No further details of the journalist’s murder were provided. Pro-Kremlin figures honored to Babayeva in social media posts.

Sergei Aksyonov, the governor of Russia’s Crimea, called her death an irreparable loss.

“Svetlana has done a great job communicating to the public the truth about what is happening in the Kherson region,” said Vladimir Saldo, head of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, which is mainly occupied by Russia.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram page: “I love you very much, Sveta.”

Ukraine has sanctioned the Rossiya Segodnya media group, calling its CEO Dmitry Kiselyov “a central figure in government propaganda in favor of the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine”.

In a statement posted by RIA Novosti, Kiselyov said Babayeva was a “warm person, a strong supporter of Russia” and “wants to support our heroes”.

Babayeva was previously RIA Novosti’s bureau chief in the United Kingdom and the United States, and editor of the Gazeta.Ru website, the agency said. Gazeta.Ru has expressed gratitude to their former editor-in-chief, who they say is “an expert of the highest standards”.

Russia continues suppression of independent journalists on Friday declared Natalya Sindeyeva, head of the Dozhd TV channel, a “foreign spy” along with two journalist colleagues.

The names of Sindeyeva, Vladimir Romensky and Ekaterina Kotrikadze appear on the latest page Russian Justice Ministry lists “foreign agents”.

Three people were added because of their “political activity”, the ministry said.

Launched in 2008, TV Dozhd covered Russia’s protest and protest movements and last year, the channel itself has been labeled as “foreign agent”.

All major independent media outlets in Russia, including Echo of Moscow radio and Dozhd TV, have either closed or suspended operations in the country.

Dozhd suspended its activities in Russia and stopped broadcasting from Russia with an emotional show on March 3, less than two weeks after Moscow invaded Ukraine.

The channel resumed broadcasting on July 18 from studios in neighboring Latvia.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has introduced legislation that provides for sentences of up to 15 years in prison for spreading information about the military deemed untrue by the authorities, such as calling the invasion of Ukraine a warwhich the Kremlin has ordered is called a “special military operation”.




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