Among the only articles in Russia sent to cover the war in Ukraine, she was injured in the leg by shrapnel while reporting live from the Russian bombings on the city of Mariupol. The channel decided not to cut the segment from the broadcast and broadcast the entire chain of events
A Russian reporter who reported on the war in Ukraine was wounded during a live coverage of the fighting in the city of Mariupol.
You wrote Irina Koksonova from the first Russian channel, is among the only journalists who came to Ukraine to report on the war. She usually gets preliminary information about the attacks.
But this time, in the Russian bombing in the city of Mariupol she was unable to dodge. The reporter herself was injured in the Ukrainian counterattacks while reporting from the field.
The channel decided not to give up the report, airing moments of drama in which the journalistic team ran to take cover from the shelling, during which Koksonova snatched a shrapnel from her leg.
Her condition is good, but the first Russian channel noted that the injury could have been much more serious if the military forces had not accompanied her – which may hint at the terrible situation facing the residents of Mariupol.