Journalists hurt reportedly during Kyiv clashes on Jan 19-20
KYIV. Jan 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Mass Information Institute said on Monday that 15 journalists had been injured in clashes between demonstrators and police in the area of Kyiv's Grushevsky Street on Sunday and Monday.
The casualties included one foreign reporter - a photographer for Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Yevgeny Feldman, was injured by a stun grenade and had his nose smashed and sustained another wound, the institute said in a statement.
The media companies represented by the Ukrainian reporters who were injured included Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, the Spilno.tv and 1+1 television channels, and the Holos Ukrayiny (Voice of Ukraine) daily.
On Monday morning, LB.ua website photo correspondent Max Levin was beaten up when he was returning to his car after clashes on Grushevsky Street on Sunday, the institute said.
It said a cameraman for the Spilnobachennya online television channel, Volodymyr Karahyaur, had been arrested on a charge of supplying gasoline for making explosives that were allegedly used by demonstrators.
