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| Russian missile strike on hotel in eastern Ukraine kills British safety advisor embedded with journalists |
| 2024-08-26 |
| [NY Post] A British safety adviser working with a team of journalists was killed after a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Reuters news agency confirmed. Ryan Evans, 38, was staying at the Hotel Sapphire with colleagues in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region when it was hit by a Russian missile Saturday night. Two other members of the six-person Reuters crew were hospitalized with injuries. Local officials said the hotel was struck by an Iskander-M Russian ballistic missile, leaving the reporters with blast injuries, concussions and cuts on the body. Associated Press reporters at the scene described the hotel as "rubble," with excavators being used to clear debris hours after the attack. Besides the hotel, a nearby multistory building was also destroyed, said Donetsk regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin. Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region also came under Russian fire, resulting in multiple civilian injuries, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov wrote on the Telegram messaging app Sunday. In Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv region, five people were injured, including a 4-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two houses were hit by a Russian strike. In Kharkiv city, eight people were wounded when a two-story house was set on fire by a Russian attack. In Russia, five people died in Ukrainian shelling in of the border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #7 #6😎 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 10:39 |
| #6 killing western journalists When I was in we had a saying that if you saw a soldier with an RPG pointed at you and a cameraman with a camera pointed at you, shoot the cameraman as their weapon does more damage. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-08-26 10:37 |
| #5 Seems like the safety adviser's job wasn't very safe. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-08-26 10:35 |
| #4 ^^ That embassy strike was done by the US, BTW. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-08-26 08:43 |
| #3 Because you can always trust the Russians, Bad. I seem to remember a Chinese embassy that was struck a few years back that was denied up until it wasn't. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-08-26 08:42 |
| #2 The Russian dispute the charge: A precise missile strike in Kramatorsk destroyed a hotel where Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and mercenaries were staying The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk (northern DPR), where Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and mercenaries were accommodated. The enemy publishes footage of the aftermath of the strike. The region's occupation authorities claim that foreign journalists were living there, two of whom were wounded. |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-08-26 04:02 |
| #1 When I served during Intifada I, I often fantasized about killing western journalists. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 02:40 |