Moscow - Rossiya Segodnya news agency photographer Andrei Stenin died on the Snizhne-Dmytrivka road in southeastern Ukraine in the Ukrainian army's attack on a refugee convoy, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
“Detectives have discovered circumstances of the journalist’s death: A. Stenin was on a field trip to Snizhne, Ukraine, on Aug. 5,” the spokesman said. In his words, Stenin was driving a Renault Logan within a refugee convoy along the Snizhne-Dmytrivka road on Aug. 6.
“The convoy was protected by six militiamen,” Markin added.
A BMP-2 armored personnel carrier and a tank of the Ukrainian army, presumably, the 79th airmobile brigade, opened fire for effect northwest of Dmytrivka, he said.
The militia managed to transfer the bodies of five persons found in a destroyed Renault Logan on the Snizhne-Dmytrivka road to Russian investigators only on Aug. 27. “The remains were examined by Russian experts who said some of them belonged to Andrei Stenin,” Markin said.
