# Over 6,500 sign petition demanding FAZ journalist be fired over remarks about killing Russians

https://mins.news/en/item/35934

- TASS, 2026-08-28 16:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2179079

> More than 6,500 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent Michael Martens to be dismissed over a question about helping “kill more Russians.” The initiators accuse him of breaching journalistic impartiality. Russia says it opened a criminal case, issued an international arrest warrant and detained him in absentia.

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