News - Middle East: A Russian journalist has been killed by cluster munitions in what Moscow denounced as a “heinous, premeditated crime" committed by Western powers and Ukraine. 

The Russian military announced on Saturday that Rostislav Zhuravlev, a war correspondent working for the Russian official news agency RIA Novosti, had been killed in a Ukrainian strike in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
"As a result of a strike by the Ukrainian army using cluster munitions, four journalists were wounded in various levels of severity," the Russian army said in a statement. 
"During an evacuation, the RIA Novosti journalist Rostislav Zhuravlev died from his wounds that resulted from the cluster munitions exploding,” it added.
RIA news agency also reported Zhuravlev’s death, saying he was killed near the frontline village of Pytikhatki.
Three other journalists were said to be stable in hospital after the attack.
"Everything indicates that the attack on the group of journalists was not carried out by chance," Russia's foreign ministry said.
"The competent international organizations prefer, as before in such cases, to turn a blind eye to this heinous crime", it added.
The ministry said that "the journalists were gathering material for a report on the bombing by the Kiev regime militants of settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region using cluster munitions banned in many countries around the world."
“The perpetrators of the brutal massacre of the Russian journalist will inevitably receive the punishment they deserve," the foreign minister warned, adding that "those who supplied cluster munitions to their protégés in Kiev will also share the full measure of responsibility."
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Kiev against the use of the banned weapons, saying his country had "sufficient stockpile" of the weapons, and that Moscow "reserved the right" to use them "if they are used against us."