A British safety adviser working alongside a team of journalists lost his life when a Russian missile struck a hotel in Kramatorsk, a city in eastern Ukraine.
Ryan Evans, 38, was staying at the Sapphire Hotel with his colleagues in Ukraine’s Donetsk region when the missile hit on Saturday night.
Two other members of a six-person Reuters team were injured and subsequently hospitalized.
Local authorities reported that the hotel was hit by an Iskander-M Russian ballistic missile, causing the journalists to suffer from blast injuries, concussions, and cuts.
Reporters described the hotel as reduced to “rubble,” with excavators working for hours to clear the debris after the attack.
In addition to the hotel, a nearby multistory building was also destroyed, according to Donetsk regional Governor Vadym Filashkin.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region also came under Russian fire, leading to several civilian injuries, as reported by regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov on the Telegram messaging app Sunday.
In the Chuhuiv district of Kharkiv, five people were injured, including a 4-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two houses were struck by a Russian attack.
In Kharkiv city, eight people were wounded when a Russian strike set a two-story house on fire.
Across the border in Russia, officials reported that Ukrainian shelling in the Belgorod region resulted in the deaths of five people on Sunday.
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Additionally, twelve others were injured in the Russian village of Rakitnoe, located 38 kilometers (23 miles) from the Ukrainian border, with a 16-year-old girl reported in critical condition, according to regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. In a separate incident, a man was killed in a drone attack on the border village of Solovevka, Gladkov added later on social media.
