The Lifenews TV channel crew came under mortar attack near Slavyansk.
"The Lifenews crew came under mortar attack. Reporter Alexei Kazannikov and operator Alexander Matveyev came under fire during a live broadcast," Lifenews said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday.
According to the report, Kazannikov said several minutes prior to the attack that Ukrainian special services had masked the Grad mounts near a block post.
"People's militiaman Andriy was injured during the explosion of the mine launched by the Ukrainian servicemen" - a mine fragment hit him in the face, the report said.
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