MARIUPOL, March 20. /TASS/. A group of Russian journalists and Chinese reporter came under artillery shelling in Mariupol, no one was hurt, a TASS correspondent reported from the site on Sunday.
"We were walking down the street when we heard an explosion behind our backs. Colleagues saw explosions ahead of us and to the right. There were some six to eight blasts. The closest shell hit the ground some 50 meters from us. The street was covered by dust. We fell to the ground and them crawled to the basement of the nearest house. We waited till the shelling was over and continued to work," he said.
Along with the TASS correspondent, the group included journalists from RT, Izvestia, stringers and a Chinese journalist, who hurt his arm when jumping to a shelter.
Forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) encircled Mariupol on March 1 and are fighting to liberate it. Despite the agreements between Moscow and Kiev on humanitarian corridors, Ukrainian nationalists do not let people leave the city, threatening by the use of weapons. Nevertheless, several thousand people have managed to flee Mariupol. As DPR forces advance to the city, people can evacuate from the liberated districts. The city is currently facing a difficult humanitarian situation, with people being left without water, electricity, gas, food supplies.