A Russian journalist from the Ria Novosti news agency, Rostislav Jouravlev, was killed in a Ukrainian bombardment in the Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine on Saturday, the Russian army said in a statement.
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At the same time, the German public television channel Deutsche Welle reported that one of its Ukrainian cameramen had been injured by Russian cluster munitions while reporting on the Ukrainian army near the front line.
Concerning Rostislav Jouravlev, “units of the Ukrainian armed forces launched an artillery attack against a group of journalists”, “injuring four journalists more or less seriously”, according to the Russian army.
“During the evacuation, Rostislav Jouravlev […] died of his injuries following an explosion of submunitions,” she added.
The state of health of the three other injured journalists is “stable”, according to the Russian army, which indicated that “they had been quickly evacuated to the medical facilities” of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
According to Mr. Jouravlev’s employer, the Ria Novosti news agency, “the bombardment took place near the village of Pyatikhatky”, in the region of Zaporijjia (south).
The Moscow-installed regional governor, Yevgeny Balitsky, confirmed the journalist’s death on Telegram, saying “[ses] deepest condolences to family and friends.
At the same time, a Ukrainian cameraman, Yevguen Chylko, filming with a team from Deutsche Welle a report 23 kilometers from the front line on the Ukrainian side, was injured “by bursts of Russian submotions”, indicated the television channel.
During these shootings, a Ukrainian soldier was killed “and others were seriously injured”, she added in a press release.
Two other members of the channel’s team, a journalist and a security adviser, escaped unscathed. They were filming a report on a Ukrainian army training center “near Druzhkivka” in Donbass, Donetsk Oblast.
“The target of the Russian attack was probably the Ukrainian training ground,” Deutsche Welle said.