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RTs camera crews have been fired upon by rioters as they tried to film the escalating violence on Kievs Independent Square. Armed protesters have taken control of Hotel Ukraine, trapping members of the RT crew inside.
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We 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, 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.
Theres no truce at all, Yaroshevsky added, describing how, a few hours earlier, he witnessed rioters pushing police back from the barricades amid weapons fire.The camera team of RTs 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.
Correspondent Egor Piskunov and his camera crew were also caught in the crossfire as they tried to film Independence Square from Hotel Ukraine.
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The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)They are participants, on one side of the thing, not neutrals or innocents caught in a cross-fire.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)watch RT most of the morning and the disparity in coverage between them and CNN International is striking, indeed.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)So, which is it? Has Revisionism Today made up their minds?