“On the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia, a Russian propagandist – a military officer of the RIA Novosti agency, Rostislav Zhuravlov, was liquidated,” the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported on Saturday. In turn, in the Donetsk region, Yevhen Shilko, the operator of Deutsche Welle, was injured as a result of Russian shelling.
The Ukrainian operator of the German Deutsche Welle, Yevhen Shilko, was injured in the Russian shelling of the Donetsk region. The Ukrinform agency reported that the incident took place when the Russians fired cluster missiles at the city of Druzhivka. The man who was hospitalized is in stable condition. Deutsche Welle correspondent Mathias Boelinger said that at the time of the shelling, his team was filming the exercises of Ukrainian soldiers. Shell fragments damaged the journalists’ car.
The correspondent of the Russian agency RIA Novosti, Rostyslav Zhuravlov, was killed in the occupied part of the Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukraine. “Photojournalist Kostiantyn Mikhalchevsky, journalist of the Russian newspaper “Izvestia” Roman Polshakov and cameraman Dmitri Shikov suffered shrapnel wounds, the Ukrainian Military Center reported. As reported by the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, all of them came under fire in the area of Piatichatki. Russian media reports that it was shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
War in Ukraine
The general staff of the Ukrainian army said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces are conducting offensive operations in the Melitopol and Berdyans directions. The Russians are concentrating their efforts on offensive actions in the directions of Kupa, Lyman, Bakhmucki, Avdiiv and Marjin. Fierce fighting is going on there. In the direction of Melitopol and Berdyans, Ukrainian troops are shelling enemy targets, including artillery batteries. In the direction of Bakhmuck and Avdiiv, the Ukrainians repulsed Russian attacks, and in the direction of Lyman and Marjin, they are stopping the advance of Russian forces.
Over the last 24 hours, the Russians carried out four missile attacks and 36 air attacks on Ukrainian towns. They also used Shahid drones. Ukrainian air defenses shot down five drones. The Ukrainian air force carried out eight attacks on the areas where Russian forces and combat equipment were concentrated. Artillery destroyed seven Russian gun emplacements.
Source: gazeta.pl
