Polish reporter Monika Andruszewska was injured by Russian shelling in Kramatorsk on August 24, as reported by Suspilne and 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.
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.
According to the TVP, Monika Andruszewska has been working and doing volunteer work in Ukraine since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. She rescued 30 Ukrainians who came under fire while fleeing from the northern city Irpin in 2022.
She now works with the Raphael Lemkin Center for Documenting Russian Crimes in Ukraine.