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Wicked Blue

(5,830 posts)
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:28 PM Feb 2022

Two Daily Beast Journalists 'Extremely Lucky' to Survive After Being Shot in Ukraine

Daily Beast
Nico Hines, World Editor

Two journalists working for the Daily Beast were shot in Ukraine on Saturday while reporting on Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of the country.

The Danish correspondents were driving near the town of Ohtyrka—which is around 60 miles outside of Kharkiv—when gunfire peppered their vehicle and left both bleeding heavily from bullet wounds.

They were able to keep driving the badly damaged car, which had smoke billowing from the engine, long enough to escape from the unknown shooters.

Stefan Weichert, 31, was shot in the shoulder and Emil Filtenborg, 30, suffered multiple bullet wounds even though both were wearing bulletproof conflict zone equipment. They made it to a hospital for treatment and will undergo surgery on Sunday.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/journalists-stefan-weichert-and-emil-filtenborg-mikkelsen-shot-while-reporting-in-ukraine?ref=home

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Two Daily Beast Journalists 'Extremely Lucky' to Survive After Being Shot in Ukraine (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 2022 OP
I hope they recover blue-wave Feb 2022 #1
damn gristy Feb 2022 #2
Brave reporters I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #3

blue-wave

(4,349 posts)
1. I hope they recover
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:37 PM
Feb 2022

Journalists too often are injured and die attempting to give us information from some extremely dangerous places.

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