A journalist of the Danish tabloid Ekstra-Bladet Stefan Weichert was wounded while reporting from eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Reuters reported.
He came under fire together with his colleage, photographer Emil Filtenborg Mikkelsen, while driving in Okhtyrka, about 90 km northwest of Kharkiv, Ekstra-Bladet reported.
“This is a terrible reminder of the danger that journalists in Ukraine face every day to document the horrors of war,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod wrote on Twitter.
The journalists were taken to the Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital, where they underwent surgery.
According to the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Dmitry Lunin, the citizens of Denmark had received moderate injuries. Currently their condition is stable.
According to “Fakty,” the journalists had been wearing bulletproof vests. They were in the Okhtyrka area when their car came under fire.
Weichert and Mikkelsen have been living in Ukraine for two years. Both are experienced journalists and have received the necessary safety training in Denmark.
According to the National Guard, representatives of the Danish embassy were informed about the state of health of the foreign journalists.