A Russian drone attacks an identified humanitarian vehicle in Ukraine in which the El Español correspondent was traveling

He unmanned aerial vehicle He was about fifteen meters from the NGO’s armored van. Its operator could clearly see that it was a humanitarian aid transport with civilian personnel inside, as this newspaper was able to verify.

The driver was traveling in the front seats along with a Austrian journalist. In the back seat, a non-governmental organization worker and Senovilla.

They all wore vests and helmets with identification: the Proliska workers with their blue logo and the reporters with the PRESS sign. All four were unharmed.

The attack occurred within the city of Kostiantynivka (in the Donetsk region). Russian troops are about three kilometers from that town, heading south, and it is one of the hottest points on the Donbass combat front along with Pokrovsk.

Upon realizing that the drone was heading towards them, the driver braked and the crew members They jumped off him just before impact.

Despite being an armored vehicle, the van was disabled, so the NGO workers They couldn’t reach the civilians who were waiting for evacuation.

A resident picked up the journalists and aid workers and took them to Kramatorsk.

Thanks to this vehicle, the NGO was able to extract some ten people every day of the towns closest to the front line of combat.

By losing it as a result of the attack, the NGO will only be able to count on a second vehicle to rescue civilians surrounded by crossfire.

“Today during the attempted evacuation of the civilian population from Kostyantynivka, the car of the Humanitarian Mission “Proliska” was attacked by a Russian FPV drone with an anti-tank charge,” he explained. Evgeny Tkachevone of Proliska’s testers.

Tkachev stressed that the drone hit “the same sticker” that identified the vehicle as “humanitarian mission”.

Finally, he explained that the attack began from ten meters, so the Russian operators “saw everything perfectly.”

“I saw the marks on the car. I saw civilians getting out of the car, but despite this, it attacked. Thank God we are all alive and healthy, we returned to Kramatorsk and we will continue organizing evacuations“he stressed.