A journalist of the Russian TV channel Russia Today (RT), U.K. citizen Graham Phillips sustained a serious wound near Donetsk airport. This was reported on the news website of the armed gang «DPR». Phillips was taken to a hospital to receive medical treatment.
Graham Phillips, who is flaunting his pro-Russian stance, recently published a video on YouTube, in which he was learning to fire from a machine gun and called his target ‘Ukrop’ (a derogatory term for Ukrainians popular among the separatists).
Earlier this year, in July, the Security Service of Ukraine in Donetsk detained Phillips and deported him from the country with a three-year ban on entering Ukraine.