<p>The Russian media outlet Izvestia said on Saturday that a Ukrainian drone strike killed its reporter near the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.</p><p>"The Ukrainian army launched a drone strike on a civilian car carrying Izvestia's freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov," the daily reported on its Telegram channel.</p><p>"The car was located far from the line of contact."</p><p>Izvestia said the car was travelling on a highway linking Donetsk, the Russian-held main town of Donetsk region, and the city of Horlivka to the north.</p>.Zelenskyy reports heavy Russian, North Korean troop losses in Russia's Kursk. <p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing on her ministry's website, denounced the incident as "deliberate murder".</p><p>Zakharova described it as "another brutal crime in a series of bloody atrocities" of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government "which openly resorts to terrorist methods to eliminate its ideological opponents".</p><p>Data previously provided by the Committee to Protect Journalists counted at least 15 journalists killed since Russia's February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Russia's <em>RIA</em> news agency said two of its correspondents travelling with Martemyanov were injured in the incident, along with two journalists working for a local publication in Donetsk. </p>
<p>The Russian media outlet Izvestia said on Saturday that a Ukrainian drone strike killed its reporter near the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.</p><p>"The Ukrainian army launched a drone strike on a civilian car carrying Izvestia's freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov," the daily reported on its Telegram channel.</p><p>"The car was located far from the line of contact."</p><p>Izvestia said the car was travelling on a highway linking Donetsk, the Russian-held main town of Donetsk region, and the city of Horlivka to the north.</p>.Zelenskyy reports heavy Russian, North Korean troop losses in Russia's Kursk. <p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing on her ministry's website, denounced the incident as "deliberate murder".</p><p>Zakharova described it as "another brutal crime in a series of bloody atrocities" of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government "which openly resorts to terrorist methods to eliminate its ideological opponents".</p><p>Data previously provided by the Committee to Protect Journalists counted at least 15 journalists killed since Russia's February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Russia's <em>RIA</em> news agency said two of its correspondents travelling with Martemyanov were injured in the incident, along with two journalists working for a local publication in Donetsk. </p>