Vladimir Zhitarenko
Journalist, Deceased Person
1942 – 1995
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Who was Vladimir Zhitarenko?
Colonel Vladimir Zhitarenko was a military correspondent for the Russian armed forces daily Krasnaya Zvezda.
Zhitarenko had covered post-Soviet conflicts in Afghanistan, Abkhazia, Chechnya, South Ossetia, Tajikistan and the Transdnester, as well as the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
On December 31, 1994, Zhitarenko was hit by two sniper bullets, including in the head, as he stepped out of an armored personnel carrier on a front line outside the town of Tolstoy-Yurt, near the Chechen capital of Grozny. He died the next day, as the second journalist to die covering the First Chechen War.
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