French journalists under rocket attack on Kramatorsk during live broadcast
Photo: from opens sources
On January 2, during a live broadcast in the studio, journalists from France covering events in Ukraine recorded a rocket attack in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.
The European Pravda reports.
The publication noted that Paul Gasnier, Eloise Gregoire, and Theo Palfray are located in the east of Ukraine and joined the broadcast of TF1-TMC from Kramatorsk.
When the reporter started talking to the studio, the missile landed less than a kilometer away. The explosion managed to reach the frame, after which they oriented themselves and lay down on the ground.
When the journalists moved to another place, they turned on the air again and talked about what they had experienced. According to them, the team was scared, but no one was injured.
The broadcast took place on January 2 at around 8:00 p.m. Paris time. Numerous media outlets later published a fragment of the video.
A missile exploded a few dozen meters from a #French journalist who was in #Kramatorsk.
Video: TMC pic.twitter.com/A4Z9Uy38Ge
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) January 2, 2023
On January 2, German Bild journalist Björn Stritzel was slightly wounded in Ukraine near the front line. Bild editor-in-chief Johannes Boie, as well as Stritzel himself, wrote about this on Twitter. According to Boie, the correspondent was wounded by shrapnel.
"He's safe (as safe as possible), and the injury is not too bad. However, this is a reminder of all the hardship reporters in Ukraine are going through to tell the truth. Thank you!" he added.
As Rubryka wrote, a journalist from Japan was injured during a rocket attack on Kyiv on December 31. The injured journalist's name is Wataru Sekita. He works for the Asahi Shimbun publication. During the shelling, he was in the hotel that was hit by the rocket of the occupiers.
In December, two Italian reporters, Claudio Locatelli and Nicolo Celesti, working in the Kherson region, came under russian artillery fire and received minor injuries. They announced this on their own social media, from where the news got into the Italian mass media.
Reference
During the six months of the full-scale war, russia committed 435 crimes against journalists and mass media in Ukraine. The Institute of Mass Information (IMI) collected such monitoring data.
As of August 24, the russian military killed 37 journalists in Ukraine. Of them, eight journalists were killed while working.
Another 14 journalists were injured.
Four journalists are still considered missing: three from Mariupol and UNIAN journalist Dmytro Hyliuk, who disappeared in Kyiv region during its occupation by the russians.
According to IMI, the russian military killed eight journalists while performing their professional duties. Of them, three Ukrainians and five foreign citizens, two women and six men.
