Deutsche Welle camera operator injured by Russian cluster munition 20 kilometers from front line
A photograph taken on February 3, 2022 shows the logo of German broadcaster "Deutsche Welle" on a laptop screen in Moscow. - Russia said German broadcaster it is closing the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and revoking staff accreditations in Russia, in response to Berlin's ban on the German-language channel of Russian state TV network RT. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
The Russian-language service of Deutsche Welle reported their camera operator Yevgeny Shilko injured by Russian cluster munitions in eastern Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region, located about 23 kilometers from the front line.
According to Deutsche Welle, one Ukrainian soldier was killed, and the attack seriously injured several other people. Shilko has been taken to the hospital but is in serious condition.
A DW camera crew came under Russian fire in the afternoon while filming training sessions of the Ukrainian military at the training ground. During the attack, one Ukrainian soldier was killed, and several others were seriously injured.
Earlier on Saturday, a correspondent of the Kremlin's propaganda publication RIA Novosti, Rostislav Zhuravlev, who previously participated in the seizure of the Donetsk region, was killed in Ukraine at the front.
The US sent controversial munitions to Ukraine in early July. Citing Ukrainian officials, the Washington Post reported on July 20 that Ukrainian forces had already begun deploying U.S.-supplied cluster munitions against the Russian military in the southeast.
The Ukrainian military has said that the cluster munitions will not be used in cities, densely-populated areas, or on Russian territory.
Russia threatened to begin deploying cluster munitions from its own stockpiles in "retaliation" for the U.S. supplying Ukraine with the weapons.
