Today, March 26, Russian media write that military correspondent of "Pervyi Kanal" Anna Prokofieva died while performing her "professional duty". It is reported that the channel's crew ran into a mine, as a result of which Prokofieva died, and cameraman Dmytro Volkov was seriously injured, in particular, he was connected to a ventilator, reports UNN.
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As reported on "Pervyi Kanal", military correspondent of the channel Anna Prokofieva died while performing her "professional duty". It is reported that she and her cameraman Dmytro Volkov were blown up by a mine in the Belgorod region.
The acting governor of the Kursk region, Oleksandr Khinshtein, said that Volkov was seriously injured. He was taken to the Oboyan Central Regional Hospital with a mine-blast injury, burns to his face, forearm, left arm, legs, and upper respiratory tract, and is now connected to a ventilator; he is being urgently transported to the Kursk Regional Hospital. His condition is serious.
"A consultation has already been convened with the involvement of the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine and specialists from the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. If necessary, the issue of transferring the journalist to Moscow will be decided. I am keeping the situation under personal control," Khinshtein said.
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Prokofieva was 35 years old. She graduated from the Russian University of Peoples' Friendship with a degree in "journalism". She worked in the Spanish editorial office of the "Russia Today" agency. She worked on "Pervyi Kanal" since 2023, reporting from the front.
"Pervyi Kanal" also stated that since the beginning of the war, Prokofieva had been delivering humanitarian aid to the occupiers, and since the beginning of her work on the channel, she had been asking to go to the front, telling "sincerely about the Russian military".
There are several versions of the propagandist's death circulating online, including that she died as a result of a UAV strike, and also that she could have been killed by the Russian military themselves. Telegram channels report that such cases occurred in Chechnya, when journalists were liquidated by Russian infantry and paratroopers to conceal facts of looting. It is likely that Prokofieva filmed footage of Russian soldiers stealing houses in the border area of the Belgorod region.
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Prokofieva is known for her support of the so-called "special military operation" - as the war is called in Russia.
In particular, on February 27, 2022, three days after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she wrote the following (original language): "Today I will not talk about 8 years of bloodshed and hostilities in the Donbas (for a second on our border), about NATO bases and tons of NATO weapons imported into Ukraine, about Russophobia, etc. I said all this on the first day. Anyone who can think understands everything anyway, and there is nothing to try to explain further to those who cannot. Today I want to say: no matter what happens, I will always be for our guys. You can insult, hate, unsubscribe, curse. I don't care!!! I am Russian, I am a patriot, I love my country and I have always supported our Armed Forces. No one wants war and we didn't want it, but I will be for our guys until the end. We are with you, guys. Come home safe and sound soon".
Interestingly, her Telegram channel is signed "Journalist | Z |", which directly indicates her support for the war and the occupying Russian forces.
Also, in her Telegram channel, she called Mariupol, Chernihiv, Berdyansk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Odesa "primordially Russian cities". She called the soldiers of the "AZOV" regiment "Ukrainian militants", etc.
The propagandist posted the last post on her Telegram channel on March 25, signing it "Somewhere on the border with country 404…".
On "Pervyi Kanal", she hosted various propaganda reports. Like the rest of the propagandists, Prokofieva also saw "Polish mercenaries and mercenaries from NATO" at the front.