Ryan Evans, a British safety adviser working with a team of journalists, was killed after a Russian missile struck a hotel in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Evans was staying at the Hotel Sapphire with colleagues in Donetsk when the missile hit, leaving two other members of the Reuters crew with injuries. The hotel was struck by an Iskander-M Russian ballistic missile, causing blast injuries, concussions, and cuts. Evans had previously advised journalists on safety in various countries, including Ukraine, Israel, and at the Paris Olympics.
The scene at the Hotel Sapphire was described as “rubble” by Associated Press reporters, with excavators working to clear debris. In addition to the hotel, a nearby multistory building was also destroyed in the attack. Elsewhere in Ukraine, the eastern Kharkiv region also came under Russian fire, resulting in multiple civilian injuries.
In Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv region, five people were injured, including a 4-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two houses were hit by a Russian strike. In Kharkiv city, a two-story house was set on fire by a Russian attack, resulting in eight people being wounded. In Russia, five people died in Ukrainian shelling in the border region of Belgorod, with twelve others wounded in the village of Rakitone. Another man died in a drone attack in the village of Solovevka near the border.
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