Donetsk - Television journalist Graham Phillips, a citizen of the UK, who was wounded in Donbas, is in the surgery section of Military Hospital №1 in Donetsk in stable condition.
“Graham Phillips has sustained a blunt fragmentation wound to the soft tissues of his lumbar spine area. It is classed as light,” Alexei Rogovoi, acting head of the hospital department, told reporters on Monday, Nov. 24.
The doctor said that Phillips had been given an anesthetic injection and is in good sprits.
The journalist said he was wounded when a mine exploded several meters away from him not far from the populated area of Peski around noon on Monday, Nov. 24.
The doctors have not said whether the journalist will be hospitalized.
Phillips is now working in Donbas as a stringer for the television channel Zvezda. He is also working for Russia Today.
“Graham Phillips, a stringer for Russia Today, has been wounded,” Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia Today, said on Twitter on Monday, Nov. 24.
The Donetsk militants have also reported on Phillips’ wounding.
