The Office for investigating crimes connected with use of prohibited means and methods of warfare of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into murder of Channel One cameraman Anatoly Klyan in Donetsk as containing signs of crimes under part 1 of article 356 of the RF Penal Code (use of prohibited means and methods of warfare) and part 2 of article 105 (murder of a person by a generally dangerous way due to their professional activity).
According to investigators, at night of 20 June Anatoly Klyan and his crew went to an army unit in Donetsk to film a report. During the filming near the unit Klyan received a gunshot wound to the abdomen, of which he died. At present the investigators already have evidence seized from the incident scene, to find not only the gun the journalist was shot from, but also a factory the ammunition had come from. Moreover, we know representatives of which Ukrainian security agencies were in the territory the shots were fired from at civilians. So for the Russian investigators it won’t be take long to identify the shooters and those who ordered them. I remind that investigators have already identified those who ordered shelling during which VGTRK journalists Kornelyuk and Voloshin were killed.
In the near future this criminal case will be filed with the one opened earlier under part 1 of article 356 of the RF Penal Code over use by service men of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, armed members of the Ukrainian National Guard and militants of the Right Sector of prohibited means and methods of warfare.
The journalist of the Channel One became one more victim of Ukrainian authorities, who flatly ignore generally accepted international norms regarding protection of civilians during an armed conflict. The Investigative Committee is going to continue collecting the evidence of the crimes and will take all possible measures under the current laws so that each guilty one is punished.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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