Italian journalist Corrado Zunino, specially sent to Ukraine by the daily newspaper La Repubblica, was wounded as a result of an ambush by Russian snipers in the area of ​​the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, but his Ukrainian translator, who accompanied him, Bohdan Bitik, was killed, AFP and EFE news agencies reported on Wednesday. which are quoted by Agerpres.

“Now I am going from Kherson to Odesa. I’m fine, I have a wound on my right shoulder from the bullet that hit my great friend Bohdan. I think he died at the beginning of the Kherson Bridge. Endless pain. He wrote that his jacket had “Press” written on top of his body armor. Italian journalist on Twitter.

Then he reported the incident by phone: “We were hit (by a bullet), I saw Bohdan on the ground, he did not move, I crawled out of the line of fire.” I ran until I hit a civilian car. There was blood on me, they took me to the hospital in Kherson.”

La Repubblica reported that a Ukrainian translator was killed, but his body could not be found due to the presence of Russian snipers in the area.

The incident took place on the approach to the main bridge in Kherson, which crosses the Dnipro, in the area of ​​clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces after the Russian army withdrew from the west bank of the Dnipro in November and established a defensive line on the east. bank, on the other side of the natural barrier that this river represents.

According to some Russian military bloggers, Ukrainian units recently managed to overcome this barrier and gain a foothold on the eastern bank of the river in the Kherson region.

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