Reporter dives for cover after massive explosion interrupts live broadcast

Cameras caught the second French journalist Paul Gasnier dived for security as a Russian missile hit its goal simply yards behind him (Image: TMC)

That is the second a French TV reporter is distributed diving for canopy as a Russian missile lands behind him throughout a reside broadcast.

Host Yann Barthes watched in horror from the studio because the blast left his reporter doubled over within the Ukrainian-held metropolis of Druzhkivka in Donetsk province.

Paul Gasnier was reporting for TMC’s Quotidien programme on Sunday night time when the missile struck a resort and ice rink about 200 metres behind him.

The frontline metropolis is simply 80 miles from Makiiva the place scores of troopers have been killed in a Ukrainian missile assault as Russian president Vladimir Putin gave his televised New Yr’s Eve handle on Saturday.

Moscow has admitted that 63 males died within the assault however sources near the Ukrainian authorities declare the true quantity may very well be 400.

An enchantment for clothes and sleeping luggage has been issued for the survivors who're thought to have been evacuated to a hospital within the Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don.

The blast despatched Gasnier sprawling for canopy (Image: TMC)

Russian shelling continued in a single day within the northeastern Kharkiv area and the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk area.

Authorities in Druzhkivka declare two individuals have been wounded within the assault on the ice rink.

The reporter was unhurt.