russian attacks damage journalists’ homes in Kyiv and Dnipro

Overnight into June 2, russian drones and missiles brought trouble again – it became known about the damaged homes of media workers Yurii Tynnyi, Olena Kyrychenko-Povolotska and Yanina Korniienko.

The apartment of Suspilne Dnipro cameraman Yurii Tynnyi was destroyed for the second time. After the previous strike on May 18, the apartment was already uninhabitable, so there were no people there and no one was injured. The apartment where the operator’s ex-wife and son live, two blocks away, was also damaged. Fortunately, the people were in shelter.

“The windows, which were blocked with plates after the first arrival, and the doors were blown open again. It was bad, but it got even worse. They started to bang in our area. I submitted all the documents for the restoration of the apartment, now we live with friends,” Yurii Tynnyiy said in a comment to the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU).

During the night attack on Kyiv, the apartment of investigative journalist Yanina Korniienko of the Slidstvo.Info media was damaged: the landing of the neighboring house broke windows and doors, cracks appeared in the walls. The journalist was not at home — the day before, she took advantage of the newsroom’s option to spend the night in a hotel with shelter, said the head of Slidstvo.Info Anna Babinets.

“In the morning, I came to collect glass… While this was happening, another alarm started. Shahed hit the same place, again in our yard. It finished off the windows that it didn’t break the first time,” Korniienko noted.

Journalist and head of the communications and public relations department of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation Olena Kyrychenko-Povolotska reported on the damage to an apartment in Kyiv. A window was broken in the house, and other damage was recorded. The family was in shelter during the shelling.

“We were in the basement with our child — we went down at night after the first explosion. They hit the house very hard several times. We saw the consequences for the apartment after the airstrikes had stopped,” Olena Kyrychenko-Povolotska told the NUJU.

As earlier reported, the house where Radio Liberty correspondent Zoriana Stepanenko lives was damaged as a result of the russian shelling of Kyiv. We also wrote that the house of media worker from Dnipro, Oleksandr Koptev, is in a state of emergency — due to a missile hitting a neighboring house.

NUJU Information Service