2023-04-26 20:42:42
He Italian journalistCorrado Zunino have results injured today in an attack in the vicinity of Kherson, in which his Ukrainian interpreter has died, Bogdan Finished. The information has been confirmed by Zunino himself, sent by the newspaper The Republic, and has been confirmed by the Italian and Ukrainian authorities.
«Traveling from Kherson to Odessa. I’m fine, I have a wound on my right shoulder, which has rubbed the bullet that hit my great friend Bogdan”, wrote Zunino in social networks. “I think he died, at the Kherson bridge. An infinite pain. He had the jacket with the word on it press (press, in English) written”, he added. The episode adds to the sad list of journalists injured or killed since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began, a list that also includes the French Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, the irish Pierre Zakrzewski and the American Brent Renaud.
A whistle
Zunino, who had previously traveled to cover the war in Ukraine, also described the attack in a telephone conversation with his newspaper. “We spent three checkpoint. Bogdan spoke to the Ukrainian military and they let us through without any problems. It was not a combat zone. Then they shot us. I heard a whistle and I saw Bogdan on the ground, he wasn’t moving“, he explained, and added that, after the attack, he tried “several times” to call his interpreter before leaving the place.
Then «I crawled out of the line of fire. I ran until I hit a civilian car. I was covered in blood and they took me to Kherson hospital,” added Zunino, whose interpreter was married and had a son, as reported The Republic.
Authorities alerted
After the facts became known, Antonio Tajani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, reported that both the Italian authorities in Kyiv like the Ukrainian ones they are working to help the informant Zunino “is well and is being monitored by our Embassy in Kyiv”, wrote Tajani on his Twitter account.
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In fact, the news has become known while Dmitro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, is – with the Prime Minister of the country, Denís Khmihal -, in the Italian capital, to participate in a conference on the reconstruction of the Slavic country.
“I have contacted our military forces who gave me the details of the case. They have communicated with the journalist and they will do their best to help him”, said Kuleba, who also said that the two were victims from a Russian attack. “The Russians don’t care if you’re Russian, Italian or Ukrainian. They simply shoot”, he added.
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