British member of Reuters team killed in Russian strike on hotel in east Ukraine
A safety adviser for the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was killed and two colleagues were hospitalised after a Russian strike on a hotel where the news agency's group was staying in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the agency said on Sunday.
A British safety adviser working with a team of Reuters journalists was killed when a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency confirmed.
Ryan Evans, 38, was staying at the Hotel Sapphire with colleagues in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region when it was hit by a Russian missile Saturday night.
Two other members of the six-person Reuters crew were hospitalized with injuries.
Local officials said the hotel was struck by an Iskander-M Russian ballistic missile, leaving the reporters with blast injuries, concussions and cuts on the body.
Associated Press reporters at the scene described the hotel as “rubble,” with excavators being used to clear debris hours after the attack.
Besides the hotel, a nearby multistory building was also destroyed, Donetsk regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin said.
Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region also came under Russian fire, resulting in multiple civilian injuries, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov wrote on the Telegram messaging app Sunday.
In Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv region, five people were injured, including a 4-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two houses were hit by a Russian strike.
(AP)
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