Donbas Frontliner - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Donbas Frontliner, Online media

Incident date: July 31, 2022

Attack type:

  • Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Institute of Mass Information

Location: Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast, Bakhmut

Additional information:

Donbas Frontliner online media journalists Andriy and Danylo Dubchak were hit by Russian cluster munitions fire near Bakhmut, Donetsk region. «About five cluster munitions exploded right above us. It’s good that we survived», — Andriy Dubchak said. He also said that journalists came under fire on July 31. Andriy was slightly injured. In addition, five windows in the car were broken, two tires were destroyed and there were six holes in the body. Andriy did not rule out that they were targeted on purpose, as their car was alone in the field.

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