“I have NO CLUE as to what that means.”
You don’t know what plain English means?
“I guess you’re saying...”
Don’t guess.
“that the Russians shot through Ukrainian lines and hit the ‘journalist’?”
Possibly, but it might also mean that the reporter had passed through a Ukrainian checkpoint and was in a territory between Russian and Ukrainian controlled areas, or he might have been in a Russian controlled area. The point is that he was not AT a Ukrainian checkpoint. He had passed through one.
“I guess that’s possible, but should Russia be blamed for it, if it happened that way?”
I cannot guarantee that he was shot by the Russians, but you seemed pretty sure the Ukrainians shot him because he was - according to you - AT their checkpoint (when he had already passed through their checkpoint).
Also, the Western world’s mass media outlets have pretty obviously sided with Ukraine. Would Ukraine really have to kill up a little known reporter to gin up more support among Western reporters? Or is it more likely that Russian troops - who have been forever infamous for reckless targeting of anything that moves - simply shot at a car moving toward their lines that they couldn’t identify as carrying reporters?
“Would Ukraine really have to kill up a little known reporter to gin up more support among Western reporters?”
They’re trying get the Western public to demand their leaders engage Russia there...this plays PERFECTLY in that effort.
And, on the contrary, what benefit is it to Russia to kill him, knowing the blowback that would occur? Can you think of anything gained for them?
At worst, it was an accident, as far as I can tell, and certainly not something to start WW3 over.