An Italian journalist, wounded during an alleged Russian attack in Kherson, “ignored the warning of the Ukrainian army,” reports the Southern Operational Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, citing CNN.

The Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security learned that Corrado Zunino, a journalist of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, “did not inform the responsible press officers about his work in the city,” according to a message from the Southern Operational Command on Facebook.

“And once there, he ignored timely warnings of the Ukrainian army about the danger,” the post reads.

According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and a Ukrainian official in Kherson, a Ukrainian journalist who worked as a translator for La Repubblica was killed in the same incident.

The post suggests that the Ukrainian journalist who was with Zunino was not wearing protective gear, showing that Zunino “was obliged to ensure that a member of his group was not only wearing a vest with the word PRESS on it, but also a bulletproof vest underneath “. But Zunino violated the code of conduct for military journalists, reports the Southern Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The editors of La Repubblica took note of these statements and stated that Zunino had a permit to enter the Kherson region, “according to the requirements and issued by the Ukrainian military leadership.”

“Mr. “Zunino behaved in full accordance with the local rules of behavior of journalists in war zones and shares with the Ukrainian authorities an interest in clarifying all aspects of what happened on the Antonivskyi Bridge on April 26,” the message reads.