Russian TV Journalist Wounded in East Ukraine, OSCE Rendering Medical Aid

Russian TV journalist has received leg and head wounds after hitting a trip wire near the eastern Ukrainian village of Shirokino.

DONETSK (Sputnik) – Andrei Lunyov from Russia’s Zvezda television station has received leg and head wounds after hitting a trip wire near the eastern Ukrainian village of Shirokino, a RIA Novosti correspondent said from the scene on Tuesday.

According to preliminary information, the journalist stepped on a trip wire and received shrapnel wounds to his legs and head and has lost a large amount of blood. Members from the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe are rendering the injured journalist first aid.

The conflict in Ukraine started April 2014, after Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against independence supporters in the country's southeast. More than 6,000 people have been killed in the hostilities.

According to the OSCE, six reporters have been killed in eastern Ukraine since November 2013. At least 170 journalists have been injured.

Rossiya Segodnya agency's special photo correspondent Andrei Stenin, Channel 1 operator Anatoly Klyan, Rossiya TV network correspondent Igor Kornelyuk and sound engineer Anton Voloshin were killed while on duty in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Each of them were posthumously awarded the Order of Courage in Russia.