On May 30, fixer for the French BFMTV channel Oksana Leuta (Ukrainian citizen), along with the channel’s journalist Maxime Brandstetter (French citizen), was injured due to a russian artillery strike on Lysychansk.
This was reported to IMI by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
They were in an evacuation vehicle together with fellow BFMTV journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, who, as IMI previously reported, was killed by the shelling.
According to investigators, the other two French channel representatives were also in the armored car during the shelling. As a result of the shelling, Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff received a shrapnel wound incompatible with life, Maxim Brandstetter suffered a shrapnel wound to the left thigh and a concussion, and Oksana Leuta received a concussion.
The information about this event has been submitted to the Unified Register of pre-trial investigations as a criminal offense under Part 2 of Art. 438 of the Criminal code of Ukraine (“Violation of laws and customs of war”).
As reported earlier, journalist of the French BFMTV channel Frederic Leclerc Imhoff received a fatal neck wound while being in the armored evacuation vehicle. He was covering the evacuation of the local residents.