Suspilne Dnipro film crew comes under russian attack

On February 2, the Suspilne Dnipro film crew came under russian drone attack while working in the frontline Ternivka in the Dnipropetrovsk Region. The media workers were recording the consequences of the russian strike on a bus with miners that occurred the day before, Suspilne reports.

The film crew arrived in the city, where a russian drone hit a bus with DTEK civilian employees nearby. Another drone hit people who were injured and trying to help each other get out of the damaged vehicle. The journalists were working on the spot, documenting the consequences of the attack on civilians. When they were preparing to record the correspondent, they heard the sound of shooting and saw the russian drone.

“The cameraman was just setting up the camera, and I was repeating the text for the stand-up. And then in the distance we heard shots and realized that most likely a mobile fire group was working – the military was trying to shoot down the drone. The shooting was getting closer and closer to us, over time we heard the sound of the drone itself, and a second later, we saw it. The black “Shahed” drone was flying approximately in our direction,” said Suspilne Dnipro correspondent Anton Sirenko.

To protect themselves, the film crew ran to a nearby fence.

“We crouched down and waited. While we were running, we noticed that the drone changed its flight course for a moment, and in two seconds, it went to strike. An explosion sounded. Immediately after that, we jumped into the driver’s car and urgently left the territory. Within five minutes, we saw another drone from the other side, flying very low, almost above the roofs of five-story buildings. Then it hit again in approximately the same place as the previous one,” the correspondent added.

The film crew, correspondent Anton Sirenko, and cameraman Oleksii Korenev worked in full protective gear — bulletproof vests and helmets with the inscription PRESS, as required by safety regulations for working in a zone of increased risk to life. The driver, according to protocol, waited for his colleagues in the car. There were no injuries or damage.

Despite the threat, Suspilne continues to work in frontline and border regions, documenting the consequences of russian attacks against civilians and informing society about the events of the war.