Ukraine, Russia: “Mattia Sorbi wounded by mine Kiev”

The Italian journalist Mattia Sorbi was wounded by a mine as part of a Ukrainian provocation to “accuse the Russian armed forces”. This is what the Russian defense ministry claims. Sorbi, “hospitalized in an intensive care unit with numerous shrapnel wounds, is receiving all the necessary treatment. His condition is stable”, reports the Russian news agency Tass, after the news of the reporter’s injury. “The Ukrainian armed forces have organized a provocation, with the aim of blowing up the Italian reporter Mattia Sorbi on a mine in the Kherson region, in order to accuse the Russian armed forces of his death”, is the version reported. from the Moscow Ministry of Defense. According to the Russian account, on 29 August “Sorbi left for advanced positions of the Ukrainian forces, accompanied by two people dressed in Ukrainian uniforms. They indicated the direction to the journalist, but they concealed from him that the way on the line of contact it had been undermined by Ukrainian forces “. “The objective of the provocation by the Ukrainian intelligence services – the defense ministry states – was to wait until the reporter was killed by Russian fire or a mine, in order to accuse Russia of killing Mattia Sorbi causing so wide coverage in the Western media “.” As the car with the journalist on board proceeded, the vehicle jumped on a Ukrainian mine. The driver was killed instantly, while Sorbi was seriously injured, “writes Tass. “When Russian soldiers saw a civilian car blow up on a mine, they went ahead despite the intense fire of the Ukrainian positions and pulled Deaf out of the burning vehicle. Russian soldiers provided the first medical aid, brought to safety. the journalist and secured the emergency transfer of the seriously injured to a medical center “.