Posted on 02/24/2022 10:04:56 PM PST by Morgana
A CNN reporter covering the war in Ukraine was caught in the middle of a firefight on live television between Russian special forces and Ukrainian defenders at an essential airfield just outside of Kyiv.
Russian and Ukrainian soldiers exchanged gunfire in a battle for control of Hostomel (Gostomel) airfield, a cargo airport near Kyiv, minutes after CNN's Matthew Chance began speaking to Russian soldiers he first believed were Ukrainians.
Russian special forces had descended on the air base in order to establish a bridgehead to bring in more troops and take over the airport.
Chance, shocked to learn he was speaking to Russian airborne troops, found himself in the middle of a counterattack from Ukrainian solders.
Footage shows Chance and a colleague, both wearing bulletproof vests with the 'press,' crouching against a wall as a car pulled up and several others from his team swooped in so the group could evade the firefight.
The airborne units are considered elite forces, specially selected for their skill and ability to parachute in during the initial attack.
They attacked and seized the Hostomel (Gostomel) airfield early Thursday and Ukraine's leadership vowed to take it back, according to Agence France-Presse.
'The enemy paratroopers in Hostomel have been blocked, and troops have received an order to destroy them,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address.
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What I want to know is where are the Stukas?
C’mon man. It isn’t a real war in the east unless there’s a JU 87 Stuka dive bomber with it’s siren wailing in a steep dive.
Wir sind gegen auf Ukraine gebomben!
War? Pffft. This is a food fight.
You can credit the reporters with guts, and still hate CNN.
Wasn’t there one reporter, supposedly “on a rooftop”, that ducked as the sound effects of a passing jet were played?
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