Car of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation . Archival photoMOSCOW, April 12Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate the shelling by Ukrainian nationalists of the film crew of Channel One in Mariupol, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the department. Earlier, Channel One reported that its correspondent Irina Kuksenkova was injured when she came under fire from nationalists in Mariupol, the cameraman and sound engineer were not injured. «Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia to investigate the fact that Channel One correspondent Irina Kuksenkova was wounded as a result of shelling of a film crew by Ukrainian nationalists in Mariupol … Bastrykin instructed the investigators to carry out the entire complex of procedural actions to record the circumstances of the crime against representatives of the Russian media and identify the persons involved in order to subsequently bring them to criminal responsibility,» the agency said. grenade launcher and AGS-17 from Ukrainian nationalists. As a result of this, Kuksenkova received shrapnel wounds in her legs. After rendering first aid by the military, the journalist was hospitalized in Donetsk.
