Serhiy Horbatenko - Justice for Journalists

Serhiy Horbatenko

Affiliated media: Radio Svoboda, Journalist

Incident date: June 10, 2022

Attack type:

  • Attempted murder

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Institute of Mass Information

Location: Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk region

Additional information:

Serhiy Horbatenko, the correspondent of Radio Svoboda, together with Roman Ternovsky, a soldier of the 122nd battalion of the Izyum district, came under Russian fire in the Donetsk region. They went from Sloviansk in the direction of Lysychansk to deliver a backpack from volunteers to a military medic. They drove to the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway and came under fire from Russian troops. When the journalist asked if it was them who were being shot at, the military replied that they were.

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