LUGANSK, June 3. /TASS/. Two Reuters reporters sustained wounds, and the driver of their car was killed in an attack from Ukrainian forces near Severodonetsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic, RT’s Igor Zhdanov reported on Friday.

"We got under a shelling attack when entering Severodonetsk. One of the shells hit the car two Reuters reporters were riding in five to 10 meters ahead of us. <…> The driver was killed immediately, and the reporters have been hospitalized," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Zhdanov said his team was safe, even though the attack had been targeted with the use of a drone. The two cars were with civilian license plates, he added.

The LPR People’s Militia has been on an offensive towards Severdonetsk and Lisichansk, where large chemical plants are located, since early March.