The political scientist assessed the likelihood of an investigation into the deaths of journalists from the Russian Federation by the UN

The words of the UN representatives about the need to obtain a mandate to launch an investigation into the murder of journalists from the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian side sound only like an excuse, and its extradition is complicated by the fact that many member countries of the organization have committed themselves to supporting the crimes of the Kiev regime. Alexey Zudin, a political scientist and senior lecturer at the MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia on March 27.

The day before, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, said that the organization had no right to investigate the murders of Russian journalists by Kiev without a mandate from the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

"We are talking about the systematic concealment of the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the concealment of crimes that are sanctioned by the Kiev leadership, as well as attempts to justify, whitewash actions, all those actions that Ukraine is carrying out," he explained.

Zudin noted that such systematic behavior of international organizations may be due to the fact that after the world became unipolar, they ceased to be relatively independent.

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He recalled that the United States recently opposed anti-Russian resolutions that were drafted at the United Nations, while its Western allies supported these documents. According to the expert, such cases can be attributed to exceptions. It will take a long time for them to become the rule.

"There are a sufficient number of states in the General Assembly that have committed themselves to supporting Ukraine on previous issues. Similarly, the United States and Russia are not the only members of the Security Council," the political scientist added.

In addition, the expert stressed, so far the decisions of Western states in international organizations on high-profile and sensitive issues reflect the inertia of the old US foreign policy.

Earlier, on March 24, Izvestia correspondent Alexander Fedorchak was killed in the special operation zone. He worked in the Luhansk People's Republic and the Kharkiv region. At the same time, Andrey Panov, the operator of the Zvezda TV channel, and Alexander Sirkeli, the driver of the film crew, died. They worked on the set together with Fedorchak. Two days later, on March 26, Anna Prokofieva, a military correspondent for Channel One, was killed while performing her professional duty in the Belgorod Region, and Dmitry Volkov, a cameraman, was also injured.

Answering a question from Izvestia at a briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova indicated that Russia was ready to recognize the murder of journalists in the special military operation zone as a terrorist act.