Russia's top federal channel cameramen shot in E Ukraine
Another journalist killed; Russia's Channel One cameraman sustained a lethal abdominal wound in a trip to a military camp in Donetsk. This is the latest episode in a series of journalists being injured or killed in Ukraine. ● Overnight into Monday, June 30 four camera crews from Russia’s four different TV stations were attacked. MIR 24, LifeNews and Ren-TV journalists were lucky, Channel One lost a life. The trip to the military unit near Donetsk, where the operator for Russia’s top federal channel died, was organized by the press service of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). During the attack the Ukrainian military gunned a bus with group of Russian Channel One journalists and mothers of enlisted soldiers. As a result, the team’s operator Anatoly Klyan was fatally wounded in the stomach and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The bus driver sustained a neck injury and at the expense of his own life managed to drive the vehicle away from fire and save his passengers. “Tonight, our colleague Anatoly Klyan, cameraman for the Channel One, died in Donetsk,” the TV channel's statement said. “The tragedy happened near one of army units, where the crew came to film a report. At the site, shots were unexpectedly fired from the side of the servicemen. Anatoly Klyan received a fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was 68 years old.”
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