Two journalists from US network Sky News were wounded in a horrific ambush of gunfire while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he said in a report on Friday.
Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked by Russian military personnel near a Kiev checkpoint as they tried to leave the city last Monday. “Our world has turned upside down” wrote Ramsay in a first-person account from the attack. “I remember wondering if my death would be painful.”
+ How the war in Ukraine could jeopardize the future of the International Space Station
And then, out of nowhere, a little explosion and I saw something hit the car and a tire burst. We roll to a stop. Suddenly, bullets began hitting the vehicle’s windshield, forcing the team of five to duck for cover.
“We were under total attack,” Ramsay wrote. “Bullets were hitting all over the car, we saw flashes of bullets, they hit the windshield glass, the seats, the steering wheel, dashboard, everything.”
Ramsay was heading towards the town of Bucha, about 48 kilometers from Kiev – where a Russian convoy had already been destroyed by the Ukrainian army – when a Russian reconnaissance squad opened fire, he said.
Ramsay and the others shouted that they were journalists, but “the rounds kept coming,” he wrote. As he prepared to run towards a ravine, he was hit in the lower back by a bullet. “I got hit!” he yelled, then fell face-first into the ravine.
Camera operator Richie Mockler also took two non-fatal shots in his armor, he said.
“In the end, we regrouped. The five of us were alive. We couldn’t believe it,” he wrote. Using a concrete wall as cover, the journalists rushed to a nearby factory and waited for rescuers.
A day later, they returned to central Kiev, said Ramsay, who did not give details about his injury. “We were very lucky. But thousands of Ukrainians are dying and families are being targeted by Russian squads, just like us, driving in a family saloon and attacked,” he wrote. “This war gets worse every day.”
know more
+ Omicron: Unexpected symptom of infection in children worries medical teams
+ Mercadão de SP vendors threaten customers with fruit blow
+ Video: Mother is attacked on social media for wearing tight clothes to take her son to school
+ Horoscope: check today’s forecast for your sign
+ What is known about fluorone?
+ Trick to squeeze lemons becomes a craze on social media
+ ‘Ichthyosaur-monster’ is discovered in Colombia
+ One twin became vegan, the other ate meat. Check the result
+ See which were the most stolen cars in SP in 2021
+ Expedition identifies giant squid responsible for ship sinking in 2011
+ US Agency warns: never wash raw chicken meat
#Correspondent #Shot #Covering #Ukraine #Invasion