A British journalist was killed and six others injured in a Russian airstrike in Kramatorsk

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A British journalist was killed and six other people injured in a Russian attack on a hotel in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk region on Saturday evening. after to the Ukrainian National Police.

Four of the injured, aged 38, 40, 41 and 46, are Reuters journalists. One of them is Ukrainian and the other three are foreign nationals from the United States, Latvia and Germany. Two of them are being treated in hospital.

The body of the deceased was found under the rubble after a 19-hour search.

The Reuters news agency said on Sunday that its journalist covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two other team members had been hospitalized after the Sapphire hotel, which housed a six-person crew, was hit by “an apparent rocket attack” on Saturday. “One of our colleagues is missing, while two others have been taken to hospital for treatment,” the agency said.

Local authorities said the hotel was hit by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile, causing the reporters to suffer blast injuries, concussions and cuts to their bodies.

Associated Press reporters on the scene described the former hotel as a “field of rubble” and hours after the attack, excavators were still working to clear away the rubble.

In addition to the hotel, a nearby multi-story building was also destroyed, Filashkin said, and rescue workers are busy clearing the rubble at the site.

The eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv also came under Russian shelling, resulting in numerous injuries among the civilian population, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on the messaging service Telegram.

In the Chuhuiv region of Kharkiv, five people were injured, including a four-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, when two houses were shelled by Russian troops. In the city of Kharkiv, eight people were injured when a two-story house was set on fire in a Russian attack.

In Balakliya, a Russian attack destroyed six houses and damaged others. A 55-year-old man was injured. In the Kupiansk area, a house was set on fire by a Russian attack, injuring four women.