As explosions rocked Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Monday, a BBC correspondent in Kyiv was seen on live camera heading to safety with his camera crew. After months of comparatively peace, four explosions struck the city while Hugo Bachega was delivering a news broadcast.
Bachega, a BBC correspondent was delivering a news report on a roof in front of the city’s iconic golden-domed St. Michael’s Monastery at 8:18 am (BST) when a rocket roared overhead.
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A distant explosion caused him to pause mid-sentence in his report and look behind him, forcing him to duck out of the way of the camera that was filming the city.
The video switched back to the newsroom, where a worried-looking Sally Bundock informed the audience that Bachega was “taking cover at that point for obvious reasons.”
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It was unclear at first if the rocket sound was coming from a plane or a missile. According to the BBC, the city centre of Kyiv was shaken by “multiple” explosions as the journalist was reporting.
Bachega and his crew later spoke to the BBC to confirm their safety, according to the broadcaster. They went to a shelter beneath their hotel and made contact with the corporation about an hour later, according to the report.
Bachega later told viewers from the shelter, which appeared to be an underground carpark, ‘We’re here in the shelter of our hotel.’ Obviously, we came here after hearing what appeared to be a missile over Kyiv.
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‘It hit very close to our hotel here in the city centre.’ Several explosions have been reported here in the capital, as per Daily Mail.
He continued, we received an update from the emergency services saying that several people were killed and injured as a result of these attacks that occurred after eight o’clock in the morning here in Kyiv.’
