Two newshounds had been shot and wounded in Ukraine on Saturday whilst reporting on Russia’s invasion of the rustic.
Freelancers Stefan Weichert and Emil Filtenborg had been shot within a automobile in Ohtyrka, a the city about 55 miles from the town of Kharkiv, the place an intense fight is happening between Russian and native forces.
The 2 skilled conflict journalists reside in Kyiv and were submitting dispatches for The Day by day Beast and Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, in step with the U.S. information web page.
Weichert mentioned he used to be hit through a bullet within the shoulder, whilst his colleague took 3 bullets to his legs. They had been dressed in bulletproof vests.
“A couple of pictures had been fired and we’re fortunate to be alive,” Weichert tweeted Sunday. “We’re at a medical institution in Poltava and nonetheless want surgical treatment, however we’re strong and getting better.”
He mentioned their automobile had come beneath fireplace whilst they had been touring close to the frontline in Okhtyrka to peer a broken kindergarten.
“The automobile completely broken, utterly damaged, smoking and leaking afterwards. However we controlled to flee and at the moment are secure. We don’t know what comes subsequent however simply wish to say thanks for the entire reinforce,” he wrote.
It’s unclear who the shooters had been.
“There’s nonetheless some confusion from our section about what took place. We will be able to inform extra when it’s conceivable however will for now center of attention on our restoration,” Weichert wrote.
On his Twitter, Filtenborg shared a hyperlink to the tune video for Elton John’s “I’m Nonetheless Status,” including, “that is sort if a lie since I’m shot in each legs, however you get the shaggy dog story.”
Denmark’s international minister, Jeppe Kofod, mentioned on Twitter it used to be “an unpleasant reminder of the risks newshounds in Ukraine face each day to file the horrors of the conflict,” in step with a translation.