Chairman of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine Serhiy Tomilenko said that the Ukrainian police have evacuated reporters of Sky News, a British television channel, to the UK after they had been attacked by Russian saboteurs near Kyiv.

"The Ukrainian police have evacuated journalists of British Sky News after they had underwent a shooting attack by Russian saboteurs," Tomilenko said on his Facebook page.

He said that five reporters were in the car after a failure to visit the town of Bucha near Kyiv when they were attacked.

"Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and camera operator Richie Mockler underwent a shooting attack – Ramsay was hit in the lower back and Mockler took two bullets to his body armor. On the shots broadcast by Sky News we can see them approaching the crossroad when a shooting attack on their car begins. As Ramsay said, at first they thought those were Ukrainian army's block post guards shooting on them – we can hear in the video them shouting that they are reporters and asking to stop," he said.

The journalists found shelter in a nearby garage and the Ukrainian police rescued them in several hours, Tomilenko said.

"Later the journalists were told that the attackers were saboteurs from Russian intelligence," he said.

Tomilenko also noted that the TV channel crew was evacuated to the UK.

"The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine expresses solidarity with brave international journalists, who, despite the risks, were performing and are performing their professional duty in Ukraine. The National Police and Ukrainian servicemen are doing the utmost to ensure safety of the media employees," he said.