DONETSK, February 17 The drone-kamikaze of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from the impact of which correspondents of the Zvezda TV channel suffered, was heading straight to the film crew, the quick reaction of the operator saved the journalists from being hit, the injured military man said TV channel correspondent Danil Piontkovsky.
«We saw a drone, my colleague shouted that a bird was flying, I ran, tripped over a piece of iron, fell. At first it seemed to me that I just fell, that my leg seemed to cramp. Then I realized when I took off my trouser leg, there blood. There was a roar and fragments from a kamikaze drone that hit a neighboring house, they flew into my leg, I only realized it later when I walked about fifty meters,” he said.
“Then my colleagues provided first aid,” the journalist added in a video published on the “Stars” Telegram channel.
Correspondents filmed the consequences of the morning attack on a residential building in the village of Panteleimonovka (DPR), where six people were injured and four people died. As reported, among the dead was a 15-year-old girl.
According to Piontkovsky, the drone was flying towards the film crew when the journalists and their colleagues were preparing for filming. He added that all the journalists had chevrons with the inscription «Press», and colleagues from the Arabic TV channel Al-Arabiya were wearing blue bulletproof vests with the inscription «Press».
He also said that he managed to leave the scene of the incident on his own, without the help of doctors. At the moment, Piontkovsky and the operator of the film crew of the TV channel «Zvezda» Maxim Margo are at a doctor's appointment in one of the city hospitals in Donetsk.
June 22, 2022, 17:18
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