Terrorist attack case opened after death of newspaper editor-in-chief in Kursk region

The Main Military Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia has opened a criminal case in connection with the death of the editor-in-chief of "Narodnaya Gazeta" in Kursk region. This was reported in the Telegram-channel of the agency on November 17.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case of terrorist attack after a Ukrainian drone attack on a car of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region, which killed the editor-in-chief of the "Narodnaya Gazeta" Yulia Kuznetsova and injured two other people.

"Military investigators qualified the criminal actions of militants of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine. - Ed.), as well as other Ukrainian paramilitary groups and members of mercenary formations under paragraph "b" part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act resulting in the death of a person")", - stated in the message.

Earlier in the day it was reported that the editor-in-chief of the "People's newspaper" was killed as a result of the attack of the AFU drone on a car in Bolshesoldatsky district of Kursk region. The Governor of the region Alexei Smirnov said that she was taking out the archival files of the editorial office and wanted in her new material to tell her fellow countrymen "about the mistakes in this area".