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Yevgeny Poddubny, the war correspondent on Russia's most popular TV station, state-run Rossiya 1, was killed by an FPV drone strike in the Kursk region. (i.imgur.com)

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There are new reports that he's in the hospital. I will undelete this post if his death is confirmed.

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Z-war correspondent Poddubny is alive, Kursk regional hospital reported

His hospitalization in the Kursk Regional Hospital was confirmed to the Defense Ministry's Zvezda TV channel. Soon this information was confirmed by Poddubny's employer, the VGTRK television and radio company. The Z-war correspondent was wounded as a result of a UAV attack.

The video allegedly shows Poddubny being hospitalized.

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[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 5 months ago

This is a single photo unlikely taken from the incident. We can’t assume that.

Either way, shit happens sadly. Journalists die unintentionally. The point is we shouldn’t celebrate it. Members of the press shouldn’t die covering military conflicts.