It was not the first time that the correspondents of the Turkish publication stayed in the hotel attacked by the Russians. The journalist and photojournalist work in the Kharkiv region and record the war crimes of the aggressor’s army.
This time they arrived on the sixth of January. Both were in their rooms on the second floor at the time of the attack.
“I felt a terrible explosion, followed by another, glass flew. Fragments of glass injured my hand. And I immediately ran out into the street.
He was very scared for his colleague, she was in the next room.
This is an audacious attack on an ordinary hotel, we have always stayed there on business trips, it is almost in the middle of the city, and we did not expect that the Russians could attack it. There were no soldiers there,” the journalist told our investigators.
“I heard a loud explosion, dust rose, nothing was visible. I was in such a state that I almost did not understand anything, did not understand what was happening. I felt like I was in a state of shock, debris flew into me. When she ran out into the street, she saw her colleague there with a bloody hand”, – these are the impressions of another business trip of a female photojournalist of a Turkish publication.
The official car in which the journalists traveled around the Kharkiv region and filmed the consequences of the Russian attacks was parked near the hotel and was also damaged as a result of the explosion.
Both foreign journalists say that this object is completely civilian. This time they saw the Russians “fighting” with their own eyes.