Another massive UAV attack destroys TV journalist’s house in Dnipro

On April 16, late in the evening, the enemy again attacked the city of Dnipro, using strike drones. Educational institutions, a dormitory, an administrative building, an enterprise, a post office, and a printing house were damaged in the city; about a dozen apartment buildings and the same number of private houses were damaged.

In one of them, Iryna Dmytriieva, a journalist from the D1 TV channel, lived with her family. Her husband is fighting in the Lut assault brigade. Their house was in the epicenter of the enemy attack, the house was almost destroyed.

At the time of the attack, Iryna was at home with her two sons (six and eleven years old) and her husband’s mother.

The Dnipro Journalists’ Solidarity Center (JSC), the Board of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Journalist Organization will petition the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) for material assistance for her colleague.

The network of Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, implemented in collaboration with the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO and with the support of the People of Japan. Our primary goal is to assist media professionals working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers are active in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. The project is part of UNESCO’s broader efforts to support the Safety of Journalists and Freedom of Expression in Ukraine.

Call the Dnipro JSC at 050 919 8479 (Nataliya Nazarova, coordinator of the Dnipro JSC). The Center’s address is 8 Starokozatska Street.

Dnipro JSC