Radio Liberty journalist injured near Robotyne

A Krym.Realii/Radio Liberty crew came under Russian artillery fire while filming a story in southern Ukraine.

The RFL journalist Dmytro Yevchyn was injured, the outlet reports.

A group of journalist Dmytro Yevchyn and cameraman Mykyta Isayko were filming a TV report at the frontline near Robotyno, Zaporizhzhia region.

Dmytro received a shrapnel wound to his leg during the mortar fire. The Ukrainian military provided him with first aid and evacuated the crew to a hospital in Zaporizhzhia.

The operation was successful, and Dmytro Yevchyn will remain in intensive care.

Ukrainian soldiers from the 10th Army Corps noted that Russian troops struck a man wearing a bulletproof vest with the inscription PRESS, which should guarantee the protection of international humanitarian law.

"In modern warfare, artillery fire with a drone surveillance is never opened without correction, so the Russian army hit a person with a bright PRESS inscription on his body armor," the corps said in a statement.

Dmytro Yevchyn has been working for the Krym.Realii project (Radio Liberty) since 2018, hosting TV programs and writing high-profile stories about life in Russia-occupied Crimea.

Since the beginning of the large-scale war of Ukraine in 2022, he has been covering the war and working on the contact line. Together with cameraman Mykyta Isayko, he is the author of reports from the front line on the southern direction of the Ukrainian-Russian front.

According to the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), since February 2022, 70 journalists have been killed in Russian aggression, 10 of them while performing professional journalistic activities, and 25 journalists have been injured.