Kramatorsk Stroke: Reuters journalist is in a critical state after shelling

According to the agency, at the time of shelling he was in a hotel with a team of six people. As a result of the shelling, one of the team members got incompatible with the life of injury. After the rocket strike at the Kramatorsk Hotel, Reuters Ivan Lyubish-Kirdi is critical in critical condition. This was reported by the information agency. "Reuters video journalist Ivan Lyubish-Kirdi remains critical.

Our other colleague, correspondent in Ukraine Daniel Peleshchuk, has been treated and discharged from hospital," Reuters said. The agency noted that 40-year-old Ivan Lubish-Kirday has been working on Reuters since 2022. He is a Ukrainian, has a child. In the same 2022 he was awarded the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Order "For Merit" in journalism. The video journalist was a member of the Reuters team of six people who covered the war in Ukraine.

They were at the Sapphire Hotel when a rocket hit. As a result of the impact, the Ryan Evans Agency Advisor to the security agency was killed. Another Reuters journalist, Daniel Peleshchuk, was injured. The other three members of the film crew were found and safe. At this point, Reuters failed to check whether the rocket was released by Russia or the blow to this building was deliberate. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on the blow.

The Kremlin Prescribe Dmitry Peskov did not directly indicate that Moscow struck the hotel "Sapphire" during a telephone conference with journalists. We will remind, earlier the chairman of Donetsk Ova Vadim Filashkin declared a hung on a hotel in Kramatorsk, which happened on the night of August 25. He noted that three journalists were injured - from Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom. At that moment, two people were pulled from under the ruins, another person was rubbed.