Alerts | Physical attack by public

Journalist attacked with a stick for asking abbot of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra about war

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The film crew of the investigative journalism agency Slidstvo.Info was attacked with a wooden stick during the filming of a report in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The journalists had been trying to find out the position of the clergy on the Russian invasion and murder of peaceful Ukrainians. Journalist Dmitriy Replyanchuk was attacked with a stick and hit on his leg after he asked questions to the abbot of the Lavra, who had refused to answer. After the attack, several men who were then on the territory of the Lavra and who had watched the incident continued to threaten and harass the journalists.

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