Ukraine troops fire on RT reporters - RT
MOSCOW. May 15 (Interfax) - Ukrainian troops opened fire on a car in which reporters from Ruptly, a news agency belonging to Russian television channel RT, were traveling to a town near Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, RT said on Thursday.
"RT's Ruptly video journalists came under fire as their car was targeted near the city of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. The shooting came from two APCs [armored personnel carriers], the crew said," a statement posted on the RT website reads in part.
"According to Ruptly's producer, the journalists were en route to the town of Dmitrovka, some 30 kilometers from Slavyansk. As they were about 10 kilometers from their final destination, Kiev's APCs 'came out of nowhere" and 'opened fire for no apparent reason,'" the statement said (the italicized words are so in the original).
"A crew of another Russian TV network, Channel 5, was also in the same car. Lucky, the bullets did not hit the vehicle," RT said, citing the Ruptly team.