Journalists under fire in Ukraine

Journalists under fire in Ukraine

As Qazet.az reported earlier American Brent Renaud is thought to have been the first foreign reporter killed in the Ukraine conflict.

But there has been at least one other journalist killed a cameraman who died in the Kyiv TV tower attack.

Yevhenii Sakun, a correspondent and camera operator for the Ukrainian television channel LIVE who was also working for the Spanish news agency EFE, was killed during a strike on the tower on 1 March, the International Federation of Journalists says.

And several others have come under fire, including Swiss photographer Guillaume Briquet, who was shot at by presumed members of a Russian special commando shortly after he passed a checkpoint on a road towards the southern city of Mykolaiv on 6 March.

Briquet says he was also harassed by the soldiers, who stole €3,000 ($3,275; £2,500) and reporting equipment from him.