Reuters said a journalist reporting on the war in Ukraine has disappeared after an attack on a hotel in eastern Ukraine.
Reuters said in a statement that its six-member team was staying at the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk, a city under Ukrainian control but not far from the eastern front, on Saturday night when the hotel “was attacked by an apparent attack.” missile attack”.
Two members of the team were taken to hospital and three others were taken to hospital, but further information was “urgently sought” to understand the whereabouts of the sixth person, the report said.
Ukrainian authorities said it was a Russian missile, but Russia has not commented on the attack.
Video released by the news agency showed parts of the hotel completely destroyed by the attack and firefighters trying to dig through the rubble.
Vadym Filashkin, the governor of the Donetsk region where Kramatorsk is located, said in a Telegram post on Sunday morning that emergency workers were on the scene, adding: “Wreckage clearance and rescue Action is underway.
Several other nearby buildings and homes were damaged in the strike, he said.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office wrote in a statement that the hotel may have been hit by a short-range “Iskander-M” missile.
It added that those hospitalized suffered a variety of different injuries in the blast.
Kramatorsk is only about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Russian-occupied region of Ukraine and is frequently attacked, killing civilians, including Famous Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina.
In recent months, Russian forces have made a slow but steady advance in the east following Ukraine’s latest offensive against Russia Seen as an attempt to withdraw troops from the Eastern Front.
