Roman Pilatyk

Affiliated media: Chernivetskyi Promin, Cameraman

Incident date: July 5, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: 0372.UA

Location: Ukraine, Chernivtsi Oblast

Additional information:

TV crew together with local activists came to a village council to file a claim about illegal sand mining. However, their claim was denied. Instead, an athletic man appeared and started swearing and threatening the journalists and even tried to crash the camera. Moreover, he took away their car keys.