The images are disturbing. A crew from the British television Sky News is driving on the roads around Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, when suddenly their journey stops amid screams. “Journalist! Journalist!” both journalists shout, between shots that destroy their car.
The camera operator received two shots in the bulletproof vest and the correspondent was injured.
This attack is one of those that the organization has denounced Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has filed a lawsuit against Russia before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Ukraine due to the attacks that have destroyed broadcast antennas of dozens of radios and televisions in that country to prevent them from broadcasting.
The complaint is based on the argument that a broadcasting antenna can only be considered a military objective if it is used by the Army, if it is temporarily dedicated to military use, or if it has both civil and military use. RSF explains in a statement that its procedure shows that the television towers were for civilian use only, which means that the attacks were against the Ukrainian media, which Moscow has accused of participating in an information strategy.
The press freedom defense organization also underlines the “intentional” nature of the destruction of the towers and the fact that they are being carried out on a large scale, which shows that there are “a deliberate plan”. He wants the ICC Prosecutor to integrate his denunciation of crimes against the media into the investigations he has launched into what is happening in Ukraine.
Source: Lasexta
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