Ukrainian journalist ambushed, killed by suspected Russian snipers

A reporter points at smoke from an airstrike on a hospital, in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. [VOA]

A Ukrainian journalist working with an Italian newspaper was shot dead by suspected Russian snipers in southern Ukraine on Wednesday. His Italian colleague was injured, the paper reported.

"Our correspondent Corrado Zunino and his fixer Bohdan Bitik were victims of an ambush near the bridge in Kherson by Russian snipers on the outskirts of Kherson, in southern Ukraine," the daily newspaper La Repubblica reported Wednesday in an article on its website.