RT Arabic correspondent Maxim Al-Turi, who, along with two colleagues – a cameraman and an assistant, was fired at in the Donetsk People’s Republicspoke about the circumstances of the incident that occurred on Saturday afternoon, February 19.
According to the journalist, at the moment when the film crew was about 300 meters from the line of contact in the area of the settlement of Zaitsevo, heavy shelling began.
The fire was fired from the Ukrainian side, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used heavy weapons.
It is known that none of the members of the film crew was injured. They managed to safely evacuate to safety.
Against the backdrop of shellingwhich are carried out by the Ukrainian military, from the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, where already announced mobilizationthe evacuation of the civilian population continues.
Now people are being accommodated in the Rostov region, where, due to a significant number of refugees state of emergency declaredhowever, other Russian regions expressed readiness to accommodate the residents of Donbass.