Radio Svoboda journalist was injured while filming at the front, he is in intensive care

On the morning of January 17, the Crimean Realities (Radio Liberty project) crew came under fire while filming at the front. Journalist Dmytro Yevchyn was injured

It is noted that a group consisting of journalist Dmytro Yevchyn and cameraman Mykyta Isayk was filming a TV story in the vicinity of the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region. Dmytro Yevchyn received a shrapnel wound in the leg as a result of the shelling.

“The Ukrainian military, together with the operator, provided him with first aid and evacuated him to a stabilization point in a nearby village, and then transported him to a hospital in Zaporizhzhia,” the publication writes.

Yevchyna was operated on, he will be in intensive care for the time being.

Soldiers from the 10th Army Corps noted that the Russian army violated international humanitarian law by opening fire at a man wearing a bulletproof vest with the inscription PRESS.

“In modern warfare, uncorrected artillery fire from an unmanned aerial vehicle is almost never opened, so the Russian army struck a man with a bright PRESS inscription on his bulletproof vest, which should guarantee its owner’s stay under the protection of international humanitarian law,” it says. statement of the corps.

Dmytro Yevchyn has been working in the publication since 2018.