Russian war correspondent Aleksandr Korobov has been hospitalized after an apparent attack, the regional broadcaster GTRK Belgorod confirmed Monday.
The statement came after Ukraine claimed that its agents had ambushed Korobov in Belgorod and fatally injured him.
“He is in a hospital,” GTRK Belgorod chief Nadezhda Vlasova said in a comment to several media outlets, adding that the journalist has been “injured” in an unspecified incident. She denied Kiev’s claim that Korobov had died.
The news website Lenta.ru cited its sources as saying that Korobov was hospitalized with a head injury.
According to local media, Korobov frequently covered the shelling of Russia’s Belgorod Region by Ukrainian troops, as well as the fighting in the Donbass. Apart from working for the ‘Russia-1’ TV channel, he produced reports for Zvezda, a channel that is run by the Russian Defense Ministry.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military intelligence service HUR claimed that Korobov “had his…