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Russia accuses Kyiv of using cluster bombs as journalist killed

A resident walks past the destroyed city hospital of Huliaipole, Zaporizhia region on July 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine [Anatolii Stepanov/AFP]

A Russian journalist has been killed near the front line in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, Russia’s defence ministry said, as Moscow accused Kyiv of using cluster munitions supplied by the United States this month in the attack.

Rostislav Zhuravlev, a war correspondent for Russia’s RIA news agency, was killed and three other Russian journalists were wounded in a Ukrainian artillery attack on Saturday, the Russian defence ministry said, adding they were evacuated from the battlefield but Zhuravlev died during the journey.

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