Attack on a hotel in Kharkiv: 13 people were injured, including foreign journalists

In the late evening of January 10, the Russian Federation used S-300 missiles to attack Kharkiv. Russians attacked the hotel in the Kyiv district of the city. 13 people were injured, including two foreign journalists. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, January 11.

According to the procedural guidance of the Kyiv District Prosecutor’s Office in Kharkiv, a pre-trial investigation into violations of the laws and customs of war has been initiated.

The prosecutor’s office said: “There was a fire as a result of a hit. The building was partially destroyed. Cars, businesses and residential buildings were damaged. 13 people were injured. Among them, a Turkish citizen and a Georgian citizen, both of whom are Turkish media journalists.”

Anadolu Agency confirmed that both foreign journalists work for them.

“Two rockets hit the Park Hotel, where Anadolu Agency journalists were staying, who had been following the Ukrainian-Russian war on the front lines for a long time. While the upper floors of the hotel were reduced to rubble by the explosion and the building itself burned down, AA correspondent Davit Kachkachishvili and photojournalist Ozge Elif Kizil, who were on duty on January 10, Journalism Day (a professional holiday for journalists in Turkey), managed to get out of the destroyed building on their own and the hotel engulfed in flames,” the agency noted.

Reporter Kachkachishvili received cuts on his hands, but both journalists are in the hospital and their condition is assessed as satisfactory. The car used by the journalist group was destroyed.

As of this time, 10 people are still in medical facilities, three were treated on the spot.

The missiles were probably fired from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 10.

It is important to note that according to the head of the police of the Kharkiv region, Russia purposefully attacked the mass media, taking into account that the information about the journalists’ stay in the hotel was not a secret.