A member of the Reuters team is missing and two others were wounded after Russian forces attacked a hotel in Ukraine, the news firm said on Sunday.
The news firm reported that a team of six journalists was covering the war in Ukraine at the Sapphire Hotel in the city of Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, when it was hit “by an obvious missile attack” on Saturday.
One of them disappeared (the local government said he was trapped under the rubble), while two others were hospitalized. The news firm said they had found the other members of the team.
“We urgently need more information, we work with the government in Kramatorsk and support our colleagues and their families. We will take stock when we have more information,” he added.
The Associated Press reported they would come from Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Local officials said the hotel was hit by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile, leaving journalists with blast wounds, concussions and cuts on their bodies.
Associated Press reporters at the scene described the former hotel as “rubble,” and hours after the attack, bulldozers are still being used to clear the rubble.
In addition to the hotel, a nearby multi-story building was also destroyed, Filashkin said, and rescuers were busy clearing debris at the site.
Elsewhere, five more people died in the Russian border region of Belgorod due to Ukrainian shelling, while 12 others, plus a 16-year-old woman in critical condition, were injured in the Russian village of Rakitone, about 37 kilometers away. away. from the border with Ukraine. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the man had been killed in a drone strike in the border village of Solovevka.
The Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine was also targeted by Russian fire, causing many civilian injuries, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
In the Chuhuiv region of Kharkiv, five other people were injured, including a 4-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two spaces were hit by Russian fire. In the city of Kharkiv, another 8 people were injured when a two-storey space caught fire by a Russian attack.
At Balakliia, a Russian attack destroyed six spaces and destroyed others. A 55-year-old man was injured. In the Kupiansk region, an area burned by a Russian attack, wounding four women.