On the night of 25 August, Russians attacked a hotel building in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region. Two people are known to have been injured, and one person is still under the rubble.
"According to the investigation, on 24 August 2024, at 22:35, Russian troops allegedly fired an Iskander-M missile at the city of Kramatorsk. The occupiers targeted a residential neighbourhood, where two foreign media journalists aged 38 and 40 were injured in the territory of a destroyed local hotel... Another of their colleagues is probably under the rubble," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The injured journalists were diagnosed with mine-blast trauma, brain contusion, a broken leg, contusion and cut wounds. They were provided with emergency medical care.
This was reported by the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin.
"Another target in the city [Kramatorsk] was a hotel - we know about 2 wounded, another 1 person is under the rubble. All three victims are journalists, citizens of Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom," the statement said.
In addition to the hotel, a nearby high-rise building was also damaged.
Authorities, police and rescuers are working at the site. The rubble is being cleared and rescue operations are underway.