Alerts | Physical attack by state armed forces/military

Zaborona film crew caught under shelling in Kharkiv region

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Cameraman Mykola Dondyuk, journalist Vira Myronova and photographer Ivan Chernichkin of online publication Zaborona were caught under heavy Russian strikes about 25 kilometres north from Kharkiv in the village of Cherkasky Tyshky. The reporting crew were interviewing a local villager when the shelling started. No one in the team was injured and they were able to safely leave the area.

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