Two former Serb fighters currently out of reach to Croatia's judiciary have been reported for war crimes committed against two Russian reporters - Gennady Demyanovich Kurinoy (born in 1950) and Viktor Vladimirovich Nogin (born in 1948) - who were killed near Hrvatska Kostajnica on 1 September 1991.

Unofficial sources have said that the two suspects are Ilija Cizmic and Zdravko Matijasevic-Zabac.

Three decades after the murders, Sisak-Moslavina County police have said that they have filed charges for war crimes against civilians to the Zagreb County prosecutor.

The police confirmed that the Serb forces to which the two suspects belonged to occupied a position of the Kostajnica Territorial Defence.

The unit opened fire at a vehicle in which the two professional Russian reporters were, despite it having diplomatic licence plates and the reporters being in civilian clothes.

After the vehicle was stopped, one of the suspects saw that the passengers were wounded but still alive. He confiscated the reporters’ documents and shot them dead.

The other suspect, who was in fact the unit commander, witnessed the murder but did not prevent the perpetrator from committing it but participated in covering it up, the police said.

The two suspects then threw the bodies and their vehicle into the Suna River. The vehicle was discovered in 1992 while the bodies of the two reporters have never been found.