The life of talented young journalist Darya Dugina (Platonova) was tragically cut short on August 20, 2022. The investigative authorities of the Russian Federation have established that the brutal murder of the Russian journalist was organised and executed by the Ukrainian special services. The Kiev regime, under the guidance of its Western curators, is ready to commit any bloody crimes, including the organisation and execution of terrorist attacks to eliminate objectionable representatives of the media community. This once again confirms the criminal essence of Vladimir Zelensky’s dictatorship.  

The cynical killing of Darya Dugina was followed by a series of attempted murders and assassinations of Russian journalists and public opinion leaders committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Journalist Oleg Klokov was killed in a shelling by a high-precision US missile aimed at a group of Tavria TV and radio company’s reporters in October 2022. An attempt to assassinate founder of Tsargrad TV Konstantin Malofeyev was made in March 2023. War correspondent Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky) was killed in an explosion in April 2023. Writer and public activist Yevgeny Prilepin (Zakhar Prilepin) was seriously injured in May 2023. Attempted murders of Editor-in-Chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya international media group Margarita Simonyan and journalist and TV host Ksenia Sobchak were prevented in July 2023. RIA Novosti war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed as a result of shelling of a civilian vehicle with US cluster munitions in July 2023; four of his colleagues received injuries of varying severity.

A year after the tragic death of Darya Dugina we have not heard a single word from relevant organisations and human rights institutions about this and many other deliberate atrocities committed against those media representatives whose point of view does not coincide with the one approved by the collective West (an insipid comment by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay expressing regret about the death of Rostislav Zhuravlev does not count). Hypocrisy, dividing journalists into the “good” and “bad”, “ours” and “theirs” is what prevails in the activities of those organisations. We would like to once again draw the attention of international human rights organisations and the judiciary to the fact that the rights of journalists are being flagrantly violated and terrorist methods are being used against them.