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Lifenews TV channel reported Thursday that its correspondent Zhanna Karpenko and her cameraman have been assaulted while covering the torchlight walk in the Ukrainian capital.
MOSCOW, January 1 (Ooduarere) — Russian Lifenews TV channel reported Thursday that two of its writers have been assaulted while covering the patriots rally in Kiev.
“LifeNews TV channel reporter Zhanna Karpenko and her cameraman have been attacked during the torchlight march in the Ukrainian capital. Unidentified persons, wearing masks, pushed the journalist and took her phone,” Lifenews said on its site, including that the assailants additionally broke the cameraman’s supplies.
As indicated by the Ukrainian news organization UNIAN, about 2,000 individuals, including the previous and current parts of the Ukrainian parliament, walked through the boulevards of Kiev on Thursday, convey lights to mark the birthday of Ukrainian patriot Stepan Bandera. The rally finished with the pioneers of Ukraine’s far-right Svoboda (Freedom) party and Pravy Sector (Right Sector) development tending to the demonstrators at Maidan Nezalezhnosti (freedom Square).
This is not the first time Lifenews columnists are consistently assaulted while working in Ukraine. Late in November the channel’s columnist Yevgeniya Zmanovskaya had been assaulted in Kiev while she was covering the issue amid the nearby football fans endeavor to give shut the show of a Ukrainian vocalist Ani Lora
2 More Russian Journalists Attacked in Ukraine: Reports
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