On 30 March 2026, a film crew from Suspilne Dnipro came under mortar fire while working in the village of Kapulivka, Pokrovske community, in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Ukraine’s Institute of Mass Information (IMI).
Correspondent Roman Mykhalchuk and camera operator Danyil Nikolayenko were filming a report about the lives of civilians under constant shelling in the Nikopol district. The team was accompanied by police officers and was preparing to record near the shoreline of the nearby river Dnipro, when Russian forces began firing mortars from the opposite side of the river, in the occupied part of Zaporizhia region.
Mykhalchuk said the team heard the whistle of a shell that landed in the middle of the street around 100 metres away from them. The journalists managed to lie on the ground and wait through the first explosions before running to the police vehicle. Nikolayenko said another shell landed near the vehicle as they were leaving the area.
According to Mykhalchuk, one of the mines exploded around 50 metres from the car. None of the journalists or police officers were injured.