Two Danish reporters shot, injured in eastern Ukraine

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A journalist and a photographer from Danish tabloid Ekstra-Bladet were shot and injured while reporting from eastern Ukraine on Saturday, the paper said.

Journalist Stefan Weichert and photographer Emil Filtenborg Mikkelsen were shot while driving in a car in the town of Ohtyrka, some 90 km northwest of Kharkiv, according to Ekstra-Bladet.

“This is an ugly reminder of the dangers journalists in Ukraine face every day to document the horrors of the war,” Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Twitter.

(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen; Editing by Alison Williams)