Russian forces fired missile that killed Reuters safety adviser

27/9/2024 15:34

        Russian forces stationed in the southern border region of Rostov fired the missile that killed Reuters safety adviser Ryan Evans and wounded two of the agency's journalists when it struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine last month, four Ukrainian security sources said.
        
        Ukraine's intelligence services, in previously unreported details of the Aug. 24 attack shared with Reuters, said the missile was launched from a site close to Taganrog, a Russian city on the coast of the Sea of Azov near the Ukrainian border.
        
        The Ukrainian military's general staff, in separate written responses to Reuters' questions, said that there was also a third unit near Taganrog that could have conducted the strike: the 47th rocket brigade of the 8th Army.
        
        The general staff's statement said a Russian Iskander 9M723 ballistic missile was fired from the area at around 22:28 (1928 GMT) and struck the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk, where the Reuters team was staying, seven minutes later.