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Hollie Bone

Sky News journalist runs for cover on live TV as mortar fire rains down in Ukraine

This is the horrifying moment that a British journalist ran for safety after coming under mortar fire during a live broadcast from Ukraine.

The Sky News crews had been reporting from the southeast of the country when shells dropped from the sky.

The dramatic clip shows Sky correspondent Alex Rossi scrambling for cover with his camera crews as the shelling descended in the coastal city of Berdyansk, just 50 miles from strategically vital city of Mariupol.

After getting to safety in a nearby building, Alex told viewers: "It just shows how quickly things can change here. We were outside filming.

"[It was] really calm. There had been shells that had come in this morning. But again, it had gone quiet, everything felt very, very normal.

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Shocked viewers watched on as they were forced to take cover on live television (Sky)

"We’ve just had to come in here to take cover because there’s been incoming mortar fire."

Mariupol is the most important Ukrainian port in the Azov Sea but mainly handles smaller ships between 3,000 to 10,000 tonnes deadweight, the Mail reports.

But the city appears to have come under attack by Russian forces as Putin attempts to cripple the Ukrainian economy by destroying the vital shipping route.

The port alongside others connected to the Avoz Sea is a major exporting route for goods such as wheat, barley and corn to Mediterranean importers including Turkey, Italy, Cyprus, Egypt and Lebanon.

Russian troops have already been deployed to guard the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, launch strikes on key airbases and surrounded Kyiv on three sides as they attempt to take the city.

Fears have been raised about increased levels of radiation after Russian forces took over the Chernobyl exclusion zone and disturbed the top soil, kicking up radioactive dust.

But Russia has refuted Ukrainian officials claims that there has been any increase in gamma radiation.

Speaking in a televised statement this morning, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was Russia's "number one target" and feared he would be abducted in an effort to topple the country's political system.

He said: “According to our information, the enemy marked me as target number one, my family as target number two.

“They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. We have information that enemy sabotage groups have entered Kyiv.”

Zelensky is in hiding but claimed he was still in Kyiv last night as he resists fleeing his capital.

“I am staying in the government quarter together with others,” he said.

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