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Sky News reveal horrifying footage of their team in Kyiv being SHOT by Russian 'assassination squad' - leaving reporter Stuart Ramsay and his cameraman injured after their car was deliberately targeted as they drove through the besieged city
Daily Mail UK ^ | March 4, 2022 | Isaan Khan

Posted on 03/04/2022 9:20:16 PM PST by Morgana

The danger journalists face covering the war in Ukraine was shockingly illustrated last night as Sky News released harrowing footage of their team coming under fire.

Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay was hit by a bullet in the lower back while in a car carrying his crew towards Kyiv on Monday.

Two rounds also hit camera operator Richie Mockler in his body armour during the ambush.

Footage shows bullets striking the car and the team screaming as glass smashes around them.

It is thought the attack was carried out by a saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.

After a tense standoff, the team miraculously ran for their lives using a concrete wall for cover before finding shelter in a factory unit.

They were later rescued by Ukrainian police.

The whole crew, including Sky News' Dominique van Heerden and Martin Vowles, are now safe and back in the UK.

The fifth member of the team, local producer Andrii Lytvynenko, is back with his family in Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Talking to people who came back to Okinawa, when they moved 4th Marines back, most NCOs had a remarkably dim view of the press...


21 posted on 03/05/2022 1:19:28 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

The Marines hated CBS, esp. Dan Rather, Morley Safer, and possibly Don Webster, among others, esp. In IV Corp. Got this from other good, honest journalists, including some of the biggest names in Vietnam reporting. I had lunch with them at the Majestic Hotel in Saigon where I stayed as well as at the Royal Hotel in Phnom Pen in Cambodia.


22 posted on 03/05/2022 1:26:59 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I recall seeing historical news reports after the battle of Ia Drang Valley (We were soldiers...).

One of those famous reporters (Morely Safer???) is talking about it and ends the story with something like “In spite of the victory, it remains to be seen how long the mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters of these boys and men that lost their lives will continue to support a war in this far off land.”

This was after the first major battle, and a victory at that!


23 posted on 03/05/2022 1:36:52 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Morgana

FR Pro Putinist traitors next.


24 posted on 03/05/2022 1:40:19 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: Bikkuri

I don’t recall that.

I didn’t pay much attention to the news in my youth.


25 posted on 03/05/2022 2:49:00 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Fido969

From a distance, in a car, their cameras could be mistaken for anti-tank aiming sights.


26 posted on 03/05/2022 2:53:21 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: metmom
And if the press is immune from attack because they are allegedly objective observers, then what’s to stop anyone from pretending they are press and using fake credentials and ID for nefarious purposes?

Antifa tend to put "press" patches on their organizers.

27 posted on 03/05/2022 2:55:00 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: sockmonkey

“Some say” blah blah blah opinion opinion opinion


28 posted on 03/05/2022 3:07:23 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: jonascord

It’d be easier to show an Illegal Immigrant court date document.

Home free...!


29 posted on 03/05/2022 3:07:58 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: Morgana

Exactly right. What the hell makes the press think they are so special?

If your in a battle zone it makes you an enemy combatant. Especially if your a low life “urinalist”. /spit


30 posted on 03/05/2022 3:34:25 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: metmom

I was young then too.. didn’t understand politics, but I do remember the death of a cameraman. It didn’t shape me back then, but when I went through the military, that is when I started paying attention.


31 posted on 03/05/2022 3:47:01 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: rbmillerjr
FR Pro Putinist traitors next.

This just in from Clown World. Film at eleven.

32 posted on 03/05/2022 3:55:32 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!!)
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To: Morgana

I am sick of ‘journalists’, deliberately putting themselves in harms way, and then reporting on how they are ‘in harms way’.

Got news for you idiots, you were sent there to report on what is going on, not what is happening to you - NOBODY cares if you get shot at. Do your job, and report the news, stop glamorizing yourselves - you are supposed to be the reporter of news, not the subject of the news.


33 posted on 03/05/2022 4:04:27 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: qwerty1234

I hate the term ‘journalist’....just too precious and full of pretension. I don’t want to read some libtard’s diary.

What happened to reporters?


34 posted on 03/05/2022 4:24:26 AM PST by wingnut1971 (FJB)
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To: Morgana

The purpose prose continues: a “ saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad” or an “assassination squad”? Which was it?


35 posted on 03/05/2022 5:54:30 AM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: Morgana
Title: Sky News reveal horrifying footage of their team in Kyiv being SHOT by Russian "assassination squad"

Text: It is thought the attack was carried out by a saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.

This is why fake news is called fake news.

36 posted on 03/05/2022 6:07:17 AM PST by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: wingnut1971
What happened to reporters?

COLLEGE

37 posted on 03/05/2022 6:08:14 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: jonascord

Stay in Portland...


38 posted on 03/05/2022 6:09:07 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: kiryandil

Oh poor Russia. Poor Russian troops. Peddle that bs some place else.


39 posted on 03/05/2022 6:17:52 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: alexander_busek

Certainly the thugs in Chicago get more range time. Good Lord dozens of murders every weekend some of those Chicago hoods must be marksmen.


40 posted on 03/05/2022 6:19:16 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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