A journalist for a Russian state-owned media outlet was killed in an accident during a shooting exercise at a military training camp in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, its editors and officials said on Saturday.
Svetlana Babayeva, director of the Crimean branch of the Rossya Segodnya media holding, “died in one of the Crimean military training camps where firing exercises were held” on Friday, news agencies reported. detail.
Babayeva worked for many years in the United Kingdom and the United States for this state-owned conglomerate, which also includes the Ria Novosti news agency and the Sputnik group.
Dmitri Kiselyov, who runs the group and is considered one of the country’s leading propagandists, described Babayeva as “a top professional” and “a warm person with a strong support of Russia”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov praised him as a “very talented journalist” who is part of the presidential group of journalists. “We worked together for years,” he told Russian media.
Babayeva, 50, has been a correspondent since 2019 in the Crimean city of Simferopol, a peninsula annexed by Russia and currently serving as a back base for the offensive in Ukraine.
source: Noticias
