MOSCOW. July 27 (Interfax) - The Russia Today news agency's military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlyov has been awarded the Order of Courage posthumously, according to a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin that was published on the Kremlin's website.
The decree also bestows the order on the agency's photo correspondent Konstantin Mikhalchevsky, as well as Roman Polshakov and Dmitry Shikov, a correspondent and a cameraman from the Izvestia multimedia information center "for courage and bravery shown in the line of duty,"
The Russian Defense Ministry said on July 22 that "on this day at around midday, Ukraine's armed forces carried out an artillery strike on a group of journalists from MIC Izvestia and the RIA Novosti news agency" while they were covering an artillery strike by the Ukrainian military on villages in the Zaporozhye region using cluster munitions.
Zhuravlyov died during his evacuation, the ministry said.