Dmitriev asked about Western media coverage of the tragedy in Khorlakh

Kirill Dmitriev, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), asked on January 1 whether Western media would cover the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Khorly in the Kherson region, which killed 24 people.

"Will any traditional media cover this?" he said in a message to X (ex. Twitter).

On January 1, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, announced that 24 people had died in Khorly as a result of a strike by three Ukrainian drones on a cafe and a hotel. Six victims, including children, are in serious condition. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act").

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Another 50 people were injured, 6 of them are in serious condition.

On January 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin heard a report by Baldo on the situation in connection with the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike and on the course of investigative actions and agreed that this crime was the same in cruelty, inhumanity and cynicism as the burning of people in Odessa on May 2, 2014. Later, the administration of the Kherson region published the first list of those killed as a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on a cafe and a hotel in Khorly, including one minor.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in turn, said that Western states follow the tactic of "strategic silence", in which they can not see Kiev's terrorist attacks for years. She also questioned the "cleanliness" of the doubters.

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