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British Journalist Shot, Wounded In Ukraine

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  • Sky News said a Russian saboteur reconnaissance squad is suspected of carrying out the attack

  • The five-person crew escaped their car and was later rescued by Ukraine’s police

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a British television crew was ambushed outside Ukraine’s capital earlier this week, leaving one journalist wounded.

Stuart Ramsay, the chief correspondent at Sky News, was hit by a bullet in the lower back on Monday as they drove towards the Ukrainian capital.

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Sky News showed footage of the attack late Friday.

Two bullets hit a camera operator’s body armour. The five-person crew escaped their car and was later rescued by Ukrainian police.

A Russian saboteur reconnaissance squad is suspected of carrying out the attack, Sky News said.

“Bullets cascaded through the whole of the car, tracers, bullet flashes, windscreen glass, plastic seats, the steering wheel, and the dashboard had disintegrated,” Ramsay said in a written account.

The news crew is now safe and back in the UK, while their Ukrainian producer is with his family in Ukraine.

“The point is we were very lucky,” Ramsay said.

“But thousands of Ukrainians are dying, and families are being targeted by Russian hit squads just as we were, driving along in a family saloon and attacked.”

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