Marharita Potapova

Affiliated media: Ukrainian Witness, Journalist

Incident date: January 17, 2025

Attack type:

• Attempted murder

Who attacked: от военных

Source: Institute of Mass Information

Location: Ukraine, Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast

Additional information:

Russians attacked a car carrying the camera crew of the YouTube project Ukrainian Witness (Marharyta Potapova and Oleksandr Davydenko) with drones. As the description to the news story says, this happened during the crew's trip to the Spartan Brigade's positions. Journalist Marharyta Potapova noted that she was slightly stunned and the press officer was injured by shrapnel. The news story also shows the damage to the car the filming crew was traveling in.