MOSCOW – Moscow has demanded that UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay respond to the killing of a Russian journalist by Ukrainian forces.

International human rights officials must hold those responsible for the killings accountable, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has demanded Azoulay’s response to the death of Russian war correspondent Alexander Martemanov, who was killed in Donetsk.

On January 4, a drone strike by Ukrainian forces killed Izvestia freelance correspondent Alexander Martemanov and seriously injured four other employees of the Russian media outlet.

Survivors of the attack said that the Ukrainian military had targeted journalists with drone strikes.

She said international human rights organizations have also deliberately ignored the Zelensky regime’s atrocities in the killings of journalists.

She also said that the deliberate killing of Russian journalists, openly using terrorist methods to eliminate their ideological opponents, is another heinous crime and a series of bloody atrocities committed by the Zelensky regime.

She said that so far, UNESCO’s leadership and its head have not personally taken any steps to signal a radical revision of this deeply flawed and evil practice, and that all perpetrators of crimes against Russian journalists will be identified and punished to the fullest extent.