Ukraine: Pushilin & Donetsk mourners honour Andrei Stenin 1 year on from death

Dozens of mourners attended a memorial event held in the city of Snizhne, Donetsk Oblast on Thursday, marking the first anniversary of the death of the Russian photo-journalist Andrei Stenin, who was killed on the job Deputy Chairman of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR/DNR) Denis Pushilin also attended. According to him, the authorities of DPR will erect a monument at the site where Stenin was killed. Stenin went reportedly missing on August 5th of 2014, and was allegedly killed the next day, but he was only confirmed dead one month afterwards, on September 5. Though the exact circumstances of his death remain unknown, it seems that he was travelling in a refugee convoy that came under shell-fire from the Ukrainian army bombing over Donetsk. Andrei Stenin became the fourth Russian journalist killed in Ukraine during the conflict in the east of the country and lies at rest near three other journalists (Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin, and Anatoli Klyan).