{"id":13059,"date":"2014-02-20T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:03:18","slug":"snipers-fire-at-russian-media-in-kiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13059","title":{"rendered":"Snipers fire at Russian media in Kiev"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ruptly\"<\/a>RT\u2019s camera crews have been fired upon by rioters as they tried to film the escalating violence on Kiev\u2019s Independent Square. Armed protesters have taken control of Hotel Ukraine, trapping members of the RT crew inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just shot at. It broke a window over here. We were standing centimeters away when a gunshot hit the room where we have our live position,\u201d RT correspondent Aleksey Yaroshevsky said, pointing to the window that had been smashed by the gunfire. He said there were unidentified snipers firing from buildings all around Independence Square.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no truce at all,\u201d Yaroshevsky added, describing how, a few hours earlier, he witnessed rioters pushing police back from the barricades amid weapons fire.The camera team of RT\u2019s video agency Ruptly was shot at during filming. One of the bullets grazed the bulletproof vest of journalist Danil Asimov as he stood by the window on the 14th floor of a Kiev hotel.<\/p>\n

Correspondent Egor Piskunov and his camera crew were also caught in the crossfire as they tried to film Independence Square from Hotel Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cameraman tried to film what was happening on the other side of the hotel and he was fired at. Thankfully they missed. As soon as they [cameramen] realized there was a bullet they dropped down to the floor,\u201d Piskunov told RT.<\/p>\n

Armed rioters have taken control on Hotel Ukraine and are using it as a base to fire on Independence Square, reports Ruptly news agency. Piskunov and his team have barricaded themselves in their hotel room and covered the windows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are live rounds being fired all around this building. Rioters are occupying the floors right now,\u201d said Piskunov.<\/p>\n

He confirmed that EU Foreign Ministers from Poland, France and Germany had quit the Ukrainian capital because of security concerns. They were scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich and members of the opposition on Thursday to discuss a solution to the unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RT\u2019s camera crews have been fired upon by rioters as they tried to film the escalating violence on Kiev\u2019s Independent Square. Armed protesters have taken control of Hotel Ukraine, trapping members of the RT crew inside. \u201cWe were just shot at. It broke a window over here. We were standing centimeters away when a gunshot … Continue reading “Snipers fire at Russian media in Kiev”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70,8406,111,66,8405,7484,140],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-kievs-independent-square","tag-riots","tag-russia","tag-snipers","tag-ukraine","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ruptly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13061,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/13061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}