Within a few days, two journalists from Germany and Japan were injured on Ukrainian territory under Kiev’s control. It has been reported TASS He’s talking about Reporters Without Borders.
“On Saturday, December 31, journalist Wataru Sehita, who worked for the Asahi newspaper, suffered a shrapnel wound in his ankle while he was near his hotel in Kiev,” the NGO said.
Also, his colleague Norito Konisue, who was at the hotel at the time, was not injured.
The second injured was Bjorn Stritzel, a reporter for the German newspaper Bild, who received minor shrapnel wounds to his face as a result of an explosion a few days later – on January 2 – near his hotel in the city of Druzhkovka, near Kramatorsk.
This event hit the air Show Quotidien on the French TV channel TMS. Journalist Paul Gasnier was broadcasting live from Druzhkovka as part of a program attended by French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire. When the reporter appeared in the frame, there was an explosion in the background.