About 23 kilometers from the front, a cameraman of Germany's Deutsche Welle TV Ievgen Shylko was hit and injured in Ukraine by shrapnel from a Russian cluster munition. One Ukrainian soldier died in the attack; others were seriously injured, Report informs, citing DW.
While filming at a Ukrainian army training ground near Druzhkivka in the Donbas region, a DW team came under Russian artillery fire at 12:10 p.m. local time (GMT +3) on July 22. DW cameraman Ievgen Shylko was injured by a piece of shrapnel from Russian cluster munitions.
DW correspondent Mathias Bölinger and a security escort survived the attack unharmed. Shylko is being treated in a Ukrainian hospital; his condition is stable so far. The journalists' vehicle was also hit. The target of the Russian attack was presumably the Ukrainian training ground.
"We were filming the Ukrainian army during target practice when suddenly we heard several explosions. We lay down, more explosions followed, we saw people were wounded. Later, the Ukrainian army confirmed that we had been fired at with cluster munitions," DW correspondent Bölinger said.