Polish journalist injured in the Russian strike on Kramatorsk

Polish reporter Monika Andruszewska was injured by Russian shelling in Kramatorsk on August 24, as reported by Suspilne and announced by Monika Andruszewska on Facebook.

The journalist says that she was driving past the site of the missile strike.

"My personal first blood shed for Ukraine – just on Independence Day. After 10 yrs of war. An Iskander right next to me. I got a tattoo on my right hand where I have a drawing of cornflowers intertwined with a grain stalk, deliberately in the colors of the Ukrainian flag," she wrote.

Polish journalist Monika Andruszewska injured in the Russian strike on a Kramatorsk hotel on August 24, 2024. Photo by Monika Andruszewska on Facebook

The journalist also posted a photo of the damaged car: “This is a photo of a person who was just driving through Kramatorsk in the evening, and another one that illustrates the interior of their car. This is what any person may look like in any part of Ukraine, wherever the Russians decide to strike with missiles. Not on the front line – just around a Donetsk oblast city where, despite Russia's genocidal actions, life still goes on, there are cafes, beauty salons, children on playgrounds."

"You are just driving around the city. You are just living. This is enough for the Russians to try to kill you and hit you with an Iskander right next to the road you are driving on, or even in a civilian building located 20 meters away," the journalist wrote.

"I'll take care of the cuts, they're nothing. I will fix the tattoo. I will get the glass shards out of my hair and hand. The car is in trouble, I will have new windows installed, after all, it is not my first time. But I will continue to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces," Monika said.

A car damaged by the Russian strike on Kramatorsk. Photo by Monika Andruszewska on Facebook

As reported earlier, a member of a Reuters filming crew covering the war in Ukraine has gone missing and two others have been hospitalized after a Russian strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk on the evening of August 24.

According to the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office, journalists with a foreign media outlet, aged 38 and 40, were injured on the hotel's premises. They were diagnosed with a mine-explosive injury, brain contusion, leg fracture, concussion and cuts on the body. Another one is probably under the rubble.