Russia targets 1+1 reporters' car with a drone

A Russian drone nearly hit the car of the "1+1" filming crew led by the journalist Oleksandr Motorny. It happened as the team accompanied an evacuation bus near Pokrovsk, TSN reports.

The footage shows that the explosion went off in front of the journalists' car. TSN says that the media workers were unharmed.

As reported earlier, the Russian missile strike on the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk on August 24, 2024 killed Ryan Evans, a safety advisor with the British news agency Reuters. Two more members of the Reuters team were injured and hospitalized. According to law enforcers, the casualties inlcuded four injured reporters: citizens of the USA, Germany, Latvia, and Ukraine. The international watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Russian attack and called for a thorough investigation to identify the culprits and prosecute them.