"No military there was": Foreign journalists about hotel shelling in Kharkiv (photo)
The hotel, which was hit by Russian troops, did not stop the Turkish publication for the first time. The journalist and correspondent work in the Kharkiv region, fixing the military crimes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This time, foreigners arrived on January 6. At the time of shelling, they were in their numbers on the second floor. "I felt a terrible explosion, then another glass flew. The fragments of the glass damaged my hand. And I immediately ran outside.
I was very frightened for my colleague, she was in the next room," the journalist said. He called a blow to the hotel "cheeky" and told that he was almost in the middle. Turkish media workers always stopped there during their business trips and did not expect it to be a hostile target. "There were no military people there," the man said. The photojournalist said that she also heard a loud explosion. The building was dusty, so it was not visible.
"I was in a state that I understood almost nothing, did not understand what was happening," the woman shared. She remembered that she felt in a state of shock. After a stroke on the hotel, the fragments flew into it. "When she ran outside, she saw her colleague with a bloody hand there," the correspondent said. The service car where guests from Turkey moved in the Kharkiv region for Znimans were parked near the hotel. It is damaged as a result of an explosion.
"Both foreign journalists say that this object is completely civilian. This time they saw" Russians fighting ", with their own eyes," Bolvinov added. We will remind, on the evening of January 10 the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired Kharkiv and hit rockets in the city center. The police informed that all the victims were civilians. According to the prosecutor's office, one of the Russian missiles hit the hotel complex in the Kiev district, the other fell a few meters before the entrance.