Alerts | Physical attack by state armed forces/military

Group of Czech and Ukrainian journalists come under fire

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Vojtech Bohac and Majda Slamova, two Czech journalists reporting for Voxpot, and two Ukrainian journalists with Central TV came under fire while travelling together in a car in Makariv, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv. They were covering a story from Northeast Ukraine when they were shot at. The group managed to escape uninjured in their car after coming under fire from Russian soldiers using AK-47 assault rifles, their media outlets reported.

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