This was reported in the Ministry of Defense.
“According to the journalist, approaching the area of hostilities, the people accompanying him suddenly asked to stop the car.
Leaving the car, they showed Mattia Sorbi the further direction of movement, hiding that the road shown to him near the line of contact was mined by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the department said.
In the course of further movement along the road, the car with the journalist was blown up by a Ukrainian mine, as a result of which Sorbi was seriously injured.
As the Ministry of Defense reported, upon seeing this, the Russian servicemen pulled the reporter out of the burning car, gave him first aid and took him to a medical facility.
Earlier it became known that an activist of the Other Russia party E.V.
Limonova”, volunteer and journalist Zemfira Suleimanova, she was blown up by a mine.