Arsen Chepurnyi

Affiliated media: Chas Chernihivskyi, Freelance journalist

Incident date: August 19, 2023

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Safety of Journalists Platform

Location: Ukraine, Chernihiv Oblast, Chernihiv

Additional information:

On 19 August 2023, Russian forces fired a missile that struck the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, injuring Arsen Chepurnyi, a freelance Ukrainian journalist with the local news website Chas Chernihivskyi. Chepurnyi and Dmytro Falchevskyi, a camera operator with Chas Chernihivskyi, were covering a drone exhibition hosted in a theatre in Chernihiv when an air-raid siren sounded. As the journalists ran to the shelter in the theater’s basement, an explosion shattered the building’s windows, sending glass into Chepurnyi’s left hand. He also sprained ligaments in his left leg when he tripped over a window frame that had been knocked onto the floor. Paramedics in the shelter provided Chepurnyi with first aid and bandaged his hand.