A glamorous propagandist for Vladimir Putin has been killed after she was blown up by a landmine while reporting close to the Russia-Ukraine border.
Anna Prokofieva, 35, a war correspondent for Russia’s state-run TV network Channel One, was killed after the vehicle she and her cameraman were traveling in ran over a landmine in Russia’s Belgorod region, state television announced on Wednesday.
The landmine was planted by Ukraine’s military, Channel One insisted, adding that Prokofieva “died while performing her professional duty,” in a statement on its website.
Prokofieva’s cameraman Dmitry Volkov was seriously wounded in the explosion in the Russian border region which has come under frequent drone and shelling attacks from Ukrainian forces amid their retreat from the neighboring region of Kursk.
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