Foreign journalists were hit by a rocket attack in Kharkiv

On October 6, journalists from the Portuguese TV channel RTP came under fire in Kharkiv.

Journalists arrived in Kharkiv the day before and spent the night in a hotel. The team consists of three people – this is Andrii Kovalenko, as well as a journalist and operator of a Portuguese TV channel.

On October 6, they planned to shoot material about demining from the State Emergency Service and go to the village of Groza, where 52 people died as a result of Russian shelling on October 5.

Andriy Kovalenko reported that he almost got burned during the explosion.

“At 6.50 in the morning I woke up to a very, very loud whistle. I didn’t even feel the explosion at first – the windows just broke. I was crushed by the window frame. Dust, fire… I honestly thought I was going to burn, but hands were under the blanket at that moment – and that saved,” Kovalenko said.

After that, he went out into the corridor, where he saw a man with a badly cut hand; Kovalenko gave him first aid.

The Portuguese journalists were not injured. Their car was damaged.

On October 6, Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with Iskander missiles. The arrivals fell on the Kyiv and Osnovyansky districts. A rocket hit a three-story residential building in Osnovyansk district. Two dead people were found from under the rubble: a 10-year-old boy and his 67-year-old grandmother. 30 people were injured, among them an 11-month-old child, the brother of the dead boy.