On 27 June 2023, English-Swedish photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Colombian journalist Catalina Gómez Ángel were injured in a Russian missile strike on a popular restaurant in central Kramatorsk, a city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Taylor-Lind told The New York Times that she was inside the restaurant when the missile hit, at around 7.30 p.m. local time. “I felt hot air and the sound of broken glass and debris flying,” she said, adding that “it went on and on and on.”
According to the photographer, she and her colleague went to find refuge in a basement, fearing another attack. They were both covered in blood. According to Taylor-Lind, waiters at the restaurant washed the blood from her face and also helped her colleague. Gómez Ángel later recounted the events as well in a broadcast for France 24, a French television channel which she was working for as a special envoy.
According to official data published by Ukrainian authorities, a total of thirteen people were killed in the Russian missile strike on the Kramatorsk restaurant, with at least 60 more wounded. Five more people were also wounded in a Russian missile attack on a nearby village, which took place at the same time.