South Asian News Network

Russian war correspondent Semyon Eremin, who worked for the Russian daily Izvestia, was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in southeastern Ukraine. Eremin, 42, died of wounds sustained when a Ukrainian drone attacked while he was returning from a trip to a Russian unit in the Zaporizhzhia region. Eremin had reported from many of the hottest battles in Ukraine’s eastern regions during the 25-month-old war, including Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops for nearly three months in 2022. He had also reported from Maryinka and Vuhledar, towns at the center of many months of heavy fighting. The Ukraine war has been dangerous and difficult to cover due to intense drone and artillery battles and punitive restrictions on journalists on both sides of the 1000 km (600 mile) front. At least 15 journalists have been killed in the war in Ukraine since 2022.