In Odesa, cameraman of TV channel "Krug" was attacked, his camera smashed

On March 21 in Odesa, unidentified man wearing mask tripped the leg of the cameraman of local TV channel “Krug”, Andriy Tyshchenko, pried off camera from his hands, and broke it. This was reported in the channel's story. The incident took place when the journalists were recording the process of dismantling of fence in Preobrazhenskyi Park. The attack took place when journalists tried to interview the businessman whose fence was removed, and mayor's office representative who was in change of removing the fence. The attacker came from behind and took the cameraman, Andriy Tyshchenko, down to the ground. Then, the attacker threw the camera to the road where the passing cars broke it. The police did not manage to catch the attacker. The cameraman filed a complaint to the local police station.