Abandoned positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novozvanovka. Video frame. Archival photoLUHANSK, May 16. Ivan Filiponenko, official representative of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic, an operator of the press service of the defense department, and a group of Russian journalists came under fire while working in the village of Novozvanovka in the Donbass. Earlier, Filiponenko said about the liberation of the settlement of Novozvanovka south of Popasnaya.»While working in the settlement of Novozvanovka, the film crew of the press service of the LPR People's Militia Department, correspondent of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Nikolai Dolgachev and correspondent of the Izvestia Information Center Aleksey Poltoranin came under mortar fire from the Ukrainian security forces. Fortunately, no one was not injured,» Filiponenko told RIA Novosti. He specified that one of the fragments was stuck in the bulletproof vest of the fighter accompanying the film crews.
