Press safety groups are looking into incidents where members of the media have faced fire in Ukraine.
came under fire from Russian forces in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv. Russian forces fired in the direction of their car despite the “press” signs and white flag that the team said were attached to the vehicle. The attack occurred days after a Sky News crew
a barrage of bullets, fire that continued even after the team identified themselves as journalists. Chief correspondentsustained two shots to his body armor as a result of the harrowing attack, which Mockler managed to capture on video as it unfolded. The full story has yet to emerge, but Sky News they were “told by the Ukrainians that we [had been] ambushed by a saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.”The Sky News footage “provides a valuable” albeit “horrifying” example “of just how quickly things can turn and just how dangerous it is to be reporting in a conflict zone such as this one,”, director of the Emergencies Department at the Committee to Protect Journalists told