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When telling a story requires life-saving skills

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine organized a series of five four-day Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) courses for media professionals, with the support of the NGO Institute of Mass Information and the British Embassy.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
More than 80 reporters, camera operators and fixers developed their survival skills in working in a conflict zone, during the training courses held at the International Centre for Peace-building and Security in Lviv, Ukraine.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
Participants underwent hostage-taking simulation exercises to put their acquired knowledge into practice outside the classroom.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
Lana Borisova, a reporter with the Ukraina Moloda newspaper, puts her new skills into action during a hostage-taking simulation exercise.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
The simulation of abduction and detention was followed by the interrogation - the participants were expected to tell a co-ordinated story.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
Participants were taught in the classroom how to identify improvised explosive devices and different types of mines, before they were taken to a field to detect the copies on the ground, like the booby trap pictured.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
The mine awareness session also included tips on what to do if they find themselves on a mine field.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
The training participants learned how to treat different injuries and how to administer life-saving first aid.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
The trainees were challenged to find the wounded in the dark of night, assess the injuries and to provide first aid.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
During the medical part of the training, the participants learned how to provide first aid after a car crash.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
During the course, special attention was paid to the security needs of women as well as the conduct of media professionals when covering protests and shootouts.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
Ukrainian military officers actively participated in exercises alongside the invited international trainers so that the Ministry of Defence could later hold similar, regular training courses for journalists.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details
Jeffrey Erlich, Senior Project Officer of OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (left) and Igor Dolgov, Deputy Minister of Defence (right) visited the opening ceremony of the training course at the Ministry's International Centre for Peace-building and Security in Lviv.
© Emine Ziyatdinova/OSCE | Photo details

Every journalist strives to grab an ‘exclusive’, to tell a story first that hasn’t yet been told. Reporting on the conflict in Ukraine has pushed journalists to take great risks along the frontlines, feeding the public’s insatiable desire for information and editors’ demands to stay ahead of the competition.

Date Date:
4 February 2016
Source Source:
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)

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