LPR, Russian residents remember VGTRK journalists killed in 2014

The VGTRK team came under mortar fire from Kiev forces on June 14, 2014 as it was working on a report on the evacuation of Metallist residents. Sound engineer Anton Voloshin was killed on the spot and correspondent Igor Kornelyuk was seriously wounded and died later in hospital.

Lugansk People’s Republic authorities, residents and guests from Russia have venerated the memory of All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin killed in the Metallist settlement area in 2014.

“It’s a day of grief; we come here every day without fanfare to remember our friends who forever stayed in the Lugansk land,” first deputy LPR Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Yury Pershikov said at the event venue in the Metallist square. “Thanks to their sacrifice in 2014, the world learnt about “Ukrainian fascism” and how dangerous and toxic it is for any person who has self-respect.”

Voloshin and Kornelyuk, like many other Russian journalists were volunteers, VGTRK journalist Andrey Rudenko said.

Deputy LPR Interior Minister Vitaly Kiselyov said that “their unprecedented feat prompted more reporters to volunteer to stand with militiamen shoulder to shoulder showing the whole world a real war against fascism here in this region.”

Activists of the LPR social organisation Mir Luganschine took part in the memorial event earlier in the day.

In 2019, LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik unveiled a memorial plaque to the journalists killed in Donbass, and a secondary school in Metallist opened a museum of war correspondents.*i*t

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