Russia responded to the UN statement about Kiev's murder of a Russian journalist

Andrei Klimov, vice chairman of the Federal Council Committee on International Affairs, said the United Nations was making excuses for its lack of condemnation of Kyiv's crimes. So, the senator commented to Lenta.ru on the statement of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the reasons for the lack of UN response to the murder of Russian journalists by Kiev .

Previously, he explained the lack of reaction to Kiev's accusations of the murder of Russian journalists. “Regarding the murdered Russian journalists, we have received information about these cases, but the problem is that we do not have access to these areas,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Renaud de Villain. because Russia does not give us access to these areas.”

“Initially, it was said that the official representative of our organization informed the United Nations about these cases. To somehow justify their lack of reaction, they came up with these versions,” Klimov said in response to de Villain.

In August, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov, called on OHCHR to condemn Kyiv for the murder of Russian journalists. “We once again call on relevant international organizations, including UNESCO and OHCHR, to abandon their usual practice of double standards, concealing the truth about the murder of those who sought to convey the truth about what is happening in Ukraine and condemn this action.” hunt for journalists launched by the Kyiv regime,” Gatilov emphasized.

This diplomat said that since 2014, the Ukrainian side has murdered Russian and foreign journalists and military officers, including Olga Moroz, Oles Buzina, Pavel Sheremet, Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin, Anatoly Klyan , Sergei Postnov, Oleg Klokov, Alexey Ilyashevich, Rostislav Zhuravlev. , Boris Maksudov, Vladlen Tatarsky, Gonzalo Lira, Semyon Eremin, Nikita Tsitsagi, Valery Kozhin and Daria Dugina.