MOSCOW. Nov 24 (Interfax) - Two RT reporters, Roman Kosarev and Sargon Hadaya, were injured when a car carrying journalists came under fire in Syria, the TV station's press service has said.
An anti-tank missile exploded near the journalists' car, RT said on its website.
RT correspondent Kosarev sustained a concussion and Hadaya was also injured, it said.
Kosarev himself has reported that the press convoy was hit by an anti-tank missile coming from the militant-controlled locality of Salma.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said that the journalists are now being treated by doctors.
"Two of our guys have been injured in Syria. They are already in safety, with the doctors. They are being brave. They are genuine brave frontline reporters," Simonyan wrote on Twitter.
"An ITAR-TASS journalist came under fire together with our guys. He was also injured. He is now in safety, with the doctors, as well," she said.
It was reported earlier that three Russian journalists suffered light injuries in shelling on the frontline of the Syrian governmental army.
"On November 23, when a group of Russian journalists was driving towards the frontline of the Syrian governmental army near the populated locality of Al-Dagmashliya, the strategic height of Zuayeq, their cars came under fire from a TOW anti-tank grenade launcher. Three Russian journalists suffered light injuries, and one of them was concussed," a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry told Interfax.
"The entire group of Russian journalists is back at the Hmeimim airbase; the injured are receiving professional medical aid," the ministry said.
For his part, National Defense journal editor-in-chief Igor Korotchenko suggested that the TOW anti-tank grenade launcher used to shell the Russian journalists in Syria was of U.S. origin.
"The anti-tank missile system with which our journalists were attacked yesterday is manufactured in the U.S. and is in the American army's inventory," the expert said.
This fact indicates that "American special services, which are managed by directives coming immediately from the White House, supply terrorist groups in Syria with advanced weapons," Korotchenko said.
"It does not matter that Washington calls these groups the 'moderate opposition'. The intentional shelling of a car carrying civilians - journalists - by representatives of this so-called 'opposition' unmistakably highlighted their true affiliation," he said.