A funeral was held on Friday in Moscow for the Russian journalist and his sound engineer, who both died on Tuesday in eastern Ukraine while reporting for a Russian state-owned television news station.<br /><br />Fellow colleagues, politicians and other people queued to pay their final respects to Igor Korneliuk and Anton Voloshin both killed while on assignment in Luhansk for Russia 24.<br /><br />Director of Russia 24’s parent company, VGTRK, said: “You have to have a strength of mind, to have courage and to love the profession, to go to the place where it is terrifying, where people are being killed, to tell the truth.”<br /><br />Cameraman Viktor Denisov is the only surviving member of their team – he filmed the incident as it unfolded.<br /><br />Denisov later said it was a deliberate, targeted action from Ukranian national troops. Both men had television logos on them, he said.<br /><br />Russia’s federal investigative agency has opened a criminal investigation into the incident.<br /><br />Ukraine’s president reportedly expressed his condolences and promised a thorough inquiry.
