Yuriy Rylchuk

Affiliated media: News agency "Ukrinform", Photojournalist

Incident date: October 14, 2025

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: от военных

Source: National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

Location: Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk

Additional information:

A photojournalist was taking pictures of a road in the evening when a scooter carrying a young man and a woman passed by and accidentally appeared in the frame. The man driving the scooter then returned and, without any explanation, attacked the journalist. The journalist managed to push the attacker to the ground and flee to a nearby supermarket, where he called the police and an ambulance. At the hospital, doctors performed X-rays and stitched a wound on his head. Police have opened a criminal investigation and are currently searching for the attacker.