On 19 August 2023, Russian forces fired a missile that struck the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, injuring Arsen Chepurnyi, a freelance Ukrainian journalist with the local news website Chas Chernihivskyi. Chepurnyi and Dmytro Falchevskyi, a camera operator with Chas Chernihivskyi, were covering a drone exhibition hosted in a theatre in Chernihiv when an air-raid siren sounded. As the journalists ran to the shelter in the theater’s basement, an explosion shattered the building’s windows, sending glass into Chepurnyi’s left hand. He also sprained ligaments in his left leg when he tripped over a window frame that had been knocked onto the floor. Paramedics in the shelter provided Chepurnyi with first aid and bandaged his hand. The attack killed seven civilians and injured at least 156. In addition to reporting for Chas Chernihivskyi, Chepurnyi is working on a media project about people from the Chernihiv region and how they responded during the Russian forces’ March 2022 siege of the city.