KYIV. Sept 3 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian authorities are ready to investigate the death of Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin after getting a request from Moscow, but it will be difficult because they have no access to the area where he was killed.
The area where the journalist was killed is not controlled by the Ukrainian military, the interior minister's adviser Anton Herashchenko said on Ukraine television 122. "We can't conduct such an investigation without access to the body, without information on how he died," Herashchenko said.
Vladimir Markin from Russia's Investigative Committee told Interfax earlier on Wednesday that Stenin, a photojournalist with Russia Today, had been killed in eastern Ukraine on the motorway connecting Snizhne and Dmytrovka.
"The investigators were able to determine the circumstances of the journalist's death. Stenin was in Snizhne, Ukraine, on an editorial assignment on August 5," Markin said. According to the Investigations Committee, Stenin was driving on the motorway connecting Snizhne and Dmytrovka in a Renault Logan as part of a refugee motorcade on August 6. "the motorcade was guarded by six militia men," Markin said, adding that the motorcade came under fire from the Ukrainian army.
The Donbas militia handed to Russian investigators the remains of the five people who were in a destroyed Renault Logan on the Snizhne-Dmytrovka road on August 27. "The remains were sent to Russian experts, who found that some of them belonged to Andrei Stenin," Markin said.