The attack happened at a time when the journalists were carrying out their journalistic work and travelling in the company of Ukrainian soldiers. You can see it in the footage above around the 4 minute 20 mark.
Aleksandrs is a Latvian from Alūksne with the nickname "Nato", who is fighting in the Donetsk region as part of the Ukrainian airborne brigade. LSM cameraman Aigars Kovaļevskis and journalist Odita Krenberga went to the unit's combat positions in the Donetsk region to report...