International News Safety Institute

26 March 2025  |  IFJ

Anna Prokofieva

Incident

Russian war correspondent killed by landmine on Russian border with Ukraine

Cause of death

Other non-natural

Details

Anna Prokofieva, a Russian war correspondent for the state-controlled Channel One, was killed and her cameraman Dmitry Volkov was seriously wounded by a landmine explosion on 26 March in the Belgorod region, near the Ukrainian border. Prokofieva had been covering the war in Ukraine for state-controlled Channel One since 2023. 

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