Croatian War of Independence - ITN Reporter Hit by Sniper During Battle of Vukovar (1991)

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  • On 15 November 1991, ITN's David Chater was wounded while reporting from the besieged city of Vukovar in Croatia. Embedded with the attacking Yugoslav People's Army, Chater was filming with a Serbian marksman when he was shot in the back by a Croatian sniper. The incident came just three days before the 87-day siege ended with the Yugoslav federal forces overrunning the city. Interviewed five days later, Chater recounted the moment he was shot and his evacuation to a Belgrade hospital.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 215

  • @R12gordini
    @R12gordini 2 місяці тому +266

    to ti je kad se druzis sa cetnicima

    • @Zupajoza212
      @Zupajoza212 2 місяці тому +24

      Sad on ispao još zrtva

    • @RedFlagSaid
      @RedFlagSaid 2 місяці тому

      a šta su zenge bolje? ustašija i hrvatski desničarski šljam

    • @dobridjordje
      @dobridjordje 2 місяці тому +23

      On je novinar i ratni izveštač, ni sa kim se on nije družio, čovek je neutralan i vršio je reportažu Bitke za Vukovar.

    • @ISSH-nu7rn
      @ISSH-nu7rn 2 місяці тому

      🎉

    • @KardioIzletmetovic
      @KardioIzletmetovic 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@dobridjordje vršio je reportažu tako što je snimo samo ono što su mu četnici dali da snima, ilitga "marva tela srpskih civila koje su ustaše zaklali"

  • @KrunoBaraba
    @KrunoBaraba 2 місяці тому +222

    So , he was with the bad guys .

    • @jokekopter2509
      @jokekopter2509 2 місяці тому +34

      Praticly yes

    • @LeAOWAviation
      @LeAOWAviation 2 місяці тому +8

      Well, Yugoslavia was practically defending their country but unfortunately yes

    • @Okinawa1914
      @Okinawa1914 2 місяці тому +38

      ZA DOM SPREMNI ✋🇭🇷

    • @jonathanmcroberts8549
      @jonathanmcroberts8549 2 місяці тому +11

      How was he with the " Bad Guys"? Who says who's bad and who's not bad?

    • @edik3310
      @edik3310 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@jonathanmcroberts8549history

  • @brunozgb4952
    @brunozgb4952 2 місяці тому +132

    you were reporting from the wrong side

    • @Chillyps
      @Chillyps 2 місяці тому +12

      @@Doran_Krotan They were commiting fucking genocide

    • @Sushi_Baka333
      @Sushi_Baka333 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@Doran_KrotanThere *is* a wrong side. Who would you support in WW2 for example, Axis?

    • @Sushi_Baka333
      @Sushi_Baka333 2 місяці тому +4

      @@Doran_Krotan And today, Germans know they weren't right. Thats the difference. When you put all peaces together you realize who was right, especialy when one side is attacking, burning villagers, killing local civilians, while other one is fighting for them to stop.

    • @oofoof1206
      @oofoof1206 2 місяці тому +1

      Literally no bad and good guys in this war, only brothers tricked into fighting by the west

    • @oofoof1206
      @oofoof1206 2 місяці тому

      @@Chillypseveryone committed genocide except for montenegrins, macedonians and slovenians, american propaganda is a bad way of learning history

  • @shieldshockerwot
    @shieldshockerwot 2 місяці тому +157

    It's like reporter on Nazi German side got hit by Soviet sniper at Stalingrad.

    • @chips1583
      @chips1583 2 місяці тому +15

      Ajde ne seri

    • @MilicijaKrajine
      @MilicijaKrajine 2 місяці тому +1

      More like the reverse of that, the German 6th Army got encircled in Stalingrad and lost, not the reverse..

    • @tebrabrat5975
      @tebrabrat5975 2 місяці тому +8

      Opaa od kad ste vi komunisti?

    • @MilicijaKrajine
      @MilicijaKrajine 2 місяці тому

      @@tebrabrat5975 369. Divizija Hrvatska Legija izgleda u Staljingradu zapravo bila na Sovjetskoj strani

    • @fenixOnTTV
      @fenixOnTTV 2 місяці тому +1

      @@tebrabrat5975 evo samo za tebe da tvoj teleći mozak razumije: komentar na kojega si komentirao je uspoređivao nacističku njemačku(agresore na Sovjetski savez, kao što ste vi bili 91 u Vukovaru i u Hrvatskoj) i Sovjetski savez (branitelje baš kao što se Hrvatska branila i Vukovar od agresora (srba i četnika)) u Staljingradu (refrencija Vukovaru, Hrvatski Staljingrad). Nadam se da je sad par informacija ušlo u vaš teleći mozak i poz sa mora ZDS!!!

  • @saraprva4172
    @saraprva4172 Місяць тому +13

    He was a chetnik that day

    • @lordhumungus1386
      @lordhumungus1386 Місяць тому +2

      actually,yeah..for the sniper he is a legit target if on the other side..I don't see he had "press" on him or something like that.

    • @saraprva4172
      @saraprva4172 Місяць тому +1

      @lordhumungus1386 yes, sniper does not see as neutral 🤷‍♀️

  • @facundosoria7707
    @facundosoria7707 2 місяці тому +27

    I like ITN's material is uploading lately.

  • @AlexSaysHi2013
    @AlexSaysHi2013 2 місяці тому +18

    Back when reporters actually risked their lives for their jobs and tried to cover both sides

  • @malicrni
    @malicrni 2 місяці тому +61

    Ovo vam je za vaše teze o građanskom ratu m vam j englesku. Na Bleiburgu ste naše djedove predali ovom koljačima, a u zadnjem ratu nam nametnuli embargo.

    • @dobridjordje
      @dobridjordje 2 місяці тому +11

      Na Blajburgu su stradali oni koji su to zaslužili u 95% navrata, naravno bilo je i nevinih i to jeste problem.

    • @oddydoddy9319
      @oddydoddy9319 2 місяці тому

      Ne poistovjecuj fasiste na Bleiburgu koji s nradili holokaust s ljudima u Vikovaru. Jasno., pozz od Hrvata

    • @David-bp8cg
      @David-bp8cg 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@dobridjordjeNiko nije zasluzio umrijeti ,bilo je oko 350 tisuca civila a samo oko 150 tisuca nenaoruzanih Domobrana Ndh(vojnici NDH),tako da brojka od 95 posto onih koji su zasluzili nije tocna a i ti vojnici sto su bili nisu radili tolke masovne i strasne zlocine nasprm cetnicima

    • @MilicijaKrajine
      @MilicijaKrajine 2 місяці тому

      u Blajburgu su bili ubijani skoro iskljucivo oni koji su vrsili ratne zlocine i to od strane Partizana iz tih krajeva vecinski HRVATSKIH i SLOVENACKIH partizana.

    • @MaTe-ow4dq
      @MaTe-ow4dq 2 місяці тому +10

      05.08.1995 su "otraktorijali" u dvotaktu oni koji su to zaslužili 😁

  • @emilthompson7813
    @emilthompson7813 2 місяці тому +69

    Družio se sa jugo-četnicima. Dobro ga je pogodilo. Šteta što ga nije ohladilo.

    • @93Dixy
      @93Dixy 2 місяці тому +3

      Sva sreće, te je pravda stigla neoustaške štakore iz HOSa i ZNGa, propisno ohlađeni i zalivađeni.

    • @MaTe-ow4dq
      @MaTe-ow4dq 2 місяці тому +13

      A čede još leže razbacani po krajini od lita 1995te, usmrdili se, dođite po gnjoivo

    • @93Dixy
      @93Dixy 2 місяці тому

      @@MaTe-ow4dq neka, bliže i kvalitetnije je ovo sa Ovčare.

    • @tomematesic2654
      @tomematesic2654 2 місяці тому +1

      @@93Dixy samo nečovjek se hvali s ratnim zločinima - da ste znali ratovati kao što ste znali klati i krasti danas vam ne bi Hrvati u KFOR-u šetali po "srcu Srbije". Ovčara je simbol vaše inkompetencije - samo apsolutno nesposobni ljudi mogu s tolikom vojno-tehničkom premoći slomiti zube na 2 tisuće ljudi i onda se životinjski iskaliti na ranjenicima. Pokrijte se ušima i bavite se svojim unutarnjim problemima da više ne čistite apartmane i ne nosite tacne na našoj obali kao sezonski radnici.

    • @stellajayne
      @stellajayne 2 місяці тому

      What a cretinous comment.

  • @katolikkreacija3828
    @katolikkreacija3828 Місяць тому +7

    An example of blind madness among Serbs is the destruction of the United Nations official world heritage of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik: The saddest thing is that even after the whole civilized world watched in 1991 how the socialist-communist Yugoslav army united with the Serbian national-socialist Chetniks (Serbian version of Nazis) were savagely destroying the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, which is a jewel of world cultural heritage, thus embarrassing the Serbs and Serbia in front of the eyes of the whole world, even today, after the evil they did, one can hear and read how some of the Serbs declare without any shame that they will try to attack Dubrovnik again when they get the chance. The last major attacks by Serbian Nazis - Chetniks on the area of ​​Dubrovnik was in August 1995, but even then they were stopped, defeated and suppressed by the Croatian army.

    • @uros4925
      @uros4925 6 днів тому

      Serbian version of Nazis HAHAAAHAH
      Croats saying something like that lol.
      At least we had just some people that were "like Nazis", you guys were actual Nazis all around.

  • @mcsmash4905
    @mcsmash4905 Місяць тому +4

    many soldiers had very little or no army gear on them , and thru a snipers scope you might as well be considered an enemy but in actuality you are a reporter a most unfortunate case of misidentification

  • @edgychico9311
    @edgychico9311 2 місяці тому +42

    It's funny how this Balkan nationalists fighting each other in this UA-cam comment 😂🤣💀
    While a bunch of nationalists thinking this foreign international journalist is supporting the fighters is absolutely garbage because this is how journalists do and they never supported this people and they have their own job is to just reporting of what's going on.

    • @donlucchese7280
      @donlucchese7280 2 місяці тому

      Not funny to peacefull and normal non-extremist nationalist people who have to put up with this and live among them for decades.

    • @slavenpetanic
      @slavenpetanic 2 місяці тому +1

      What's funny (and sad at the same time) is your comment and your picture..Stick to your Trumpamania cuz you don't know anything about us !!

    • @sisko4318
      @sisko4318 2 місяці тому +6

      Youre right the journalists were there to do theyre jobs not to support either side

    • @Casio21970
      @Casio21970 Місяць тому +1

      Balkan is mountain in Bulgaria

    • @lordhumungus1386
      @lordhumungus1386 Місяць тому

      no one cares.

  • @cipiripi81
    @cipiripi81 2 місяці тому +24

    Your reporter obviously was on the wrong side...

    • @presidentofyes12
      @presidentofyes12 Місяць тому +1

      I mean yeah but the Croatians were encircled and defeat was inevitable for them- also, it'd be difficult to sneak past the Yugoslavs in an active combat zone to get to the Croatian side, and it'd cause issues when the Croatians did lose the battle. So if they wanted to go to Vukovar they'd have to go to the side where safety was most guaranteed, the Serb side

  • @Kvacer207
    @Kvacer207 2 місяці тому +4

    Nice HD quality

  • @AdastraBand
    @AdastraBand 16 днів тому +1

    When you are on the wrong side

  • @lukasunjic750
    @lukasunjic750 2 місяці тому +48

    ZDS !!

    • @iamfrombanglasdesh
      @iamfrombanglasdesh 2 місяці тому +4

      za duvanje spremni !!

    • @leonardio.miyt9
      @leonardio.miyt9 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@iamfrombanglasdeshZa Jasenovac Spremni!

    • @lukasunjic750
      @lukasunjic750 2 місяці тому +6

      @@leonardio.miyt9 kakav Jasenovac? Onaj di su antihrvati bili na radnoj terapiji? Nista to samo traktorijada ❤

    • @leonardio.miyt9
      @leonardio.miyt9 2 місяці тому +4

      @@iamfrombanglasdesh Oluja 95 Fast and furious

    • @iamfrombanglasdesh
      @iamfrombanglasdesh 2 місяці тому

      @@leonardio.miyt9 sto niste tako oslobodili i vukovar. kad su srbi povukli civile i stavili 3 linije odbrane sedeli ste i grickali nokte

  • @tikusawatikusawa9239
    @tikusawatikusawa9239 2 місяці тому +13

    nije mi ga baš nešto žao..iskreno..

  • @IntroMan96
    @IntroMan96 2 місяці тому +11

    lesson learned, report from the good side.

    • @Randomdon1234
      @Randomdon1234 2 місяці тому +8

      Aren't journos supposed to cover all sides? You know, so they can report what's happening?

    • @hellheight8243
      @hellheight8243 Місяць тому +2

      @@Randomdon1234 Bit difficult to ask "hey can we come into that besieged city and film with people you're shooting at?"

    • @Randomdon1234
      @Randomdon1234 Місяць тому +2

      @@hellheight8243 not what I was saying, the guy said about that they should report only from the "good side", basically that journos should act as propagandists (which they do, but that's another argument). But yeah, I get that logistically it might be impossible to cover every angle but they're supposed to at least try

    • @matijastipcevic8166
      @matijastipcevic8166 13 днів тому

      😂😂🎉

  • @mltrsea198
    @mltrsea198 2 місяці тому +43

    KOSOVO IS ALBANIJA🇦🇱🇽🇰💪🏻

    • @Cyan_Nightingale
      @Cyan_Nightingale 2 місяці тому +14

      No. Kosovo is Thai's 🇹🇭

    • @Zagortej
      @Zagortej 2 місяці тому +13

      Kosovo belongs to Antarctica 🇦🇶

    • @davsickler3978
      @davsickler3978 2 місяці тому

      Kosovo is clintons

    • @klug67
      @klug67 2 місяці тому +2

      Vukovar IS far from Kosovo

    • @ajmo-fi7mj
      @ajmo-fi7mj 2 місяці тому +4

      Kosovo is Albania
      Greetings from Croatia brothers!

  • @gorangorscak2776
    @gorangorscak2776 2 місяці тому +9

    Bio si na krivoj strani. Imaš sreće

    • @gorangorscak2776
      @gorangorscak2776 2 місяці тому +3

      @@breizhatav7 okupatorskoj.je ti sada jasnije!?

    • @breizhatav7
      @breizhatav7 2 місяці тому +1

      @@gorangorscak2776 ma druže moj sto ti toliko mrzis srbe?

    • @tomislav_radic
      @tomislav_radic 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@breizhatav7 to ga pitaš ispod videa o razrušenom Vukovaru? Ozbiljno?

    • @tomislav_radic
      @tomislav_radic 2 місяці тому

      ​@@breizhatav7 ajmo naprijed. Volite li vi Hrvate?

    • @tomislav_radic
      @tomislav_radic 2 місяці тому

      @@breizhatav7 ako ti kažeš 🙂živ i zdrav bio!

  • @roman949
    @roman949 Місяць тому +1

    Slava Serbii!

    • @zrushu-qx7jq
      @zrushu-qx7jq 17 годин тому

      Slava hrvatskoj
      Slava ukrajini

    • @roman949
      @roman949 16 годин тому

      @@zrushu-qx7jq Idi nahuj pidaras

  • @RoBeRtOroflz
    @RoBeRtOroflz Місяць тому +2

    Imagine fighting for the nazis in world war 2

  • @adaw2d3222
    @adaw2d3222 2 години тому

    I suggest clicking the Translate to English button below the serbocroat comments to see the hilarious Balkan stuff yet again.

  • @CroatianDivision
    @CroatianDivision Місяць тому +11

    VUKOVAR CROATIAN CITY ⚡⚡

  • @savannaholdridge8502
    @savannaholdridge8502 Місяць тому

    153 Auer Causeway

  • @Semprini537
    @Semprini537 2 місяці тому +1

    Imagine you been a Croat

    • @bluemedusa9858
      @bluemedusa9858 Місяць тому +1

      I'm Albanian and if i wasn't born Albanian i wish i was a Croat ! ZDS!!

    • @Semprini537
      @Semprini537 Місяць тому

      @@bluemedusa9858 pa di si rođo

  • @DominikOliverCseh
    @DominikOliverCseh Місяць тому

    Why yugoslavian nations started to kill each other ? Why couldn't they just stay in peace as they were ? They are brother nations . I dont understand

    • @kondoric
      @kondoric Місяць тому

      Ćifutska posla. Posla ateističnih financijskih mogula. Do pojave istih nikada se Albanci i Srbi nisu ubijali, Arapi i Židovi, Hrvati i Srbi. Razmisli.

  • @bnast6849
    @bnast6849 2 місяці тому +6

    He was clearly marked as press since they always have blue helmets and bullet proof vests so the Croatian sniper purpousely did that.

    • @sentaveliki425
      @sentaveliki425 2 місяці тому +14

      Vukovar was a bloody mess a town so destroyed it was compared to stalingrad so the soldiers werent in the mood to mess around

    • @David-bp8cg
      @David-bp8cg 2 місяці тому +14

      And what was marked, he looked the same as those Chetniks who attacked and destroyed Vukovar, no real Croat would kill anyone, except in self-defense

    • @sisko4318
      @sisko4318 2 місяці тому +8

      Both sides were shooting at anything that moves

    • @flyingbanana4179
      @flyingbanana4179 2 місяці тому

      @@David-bp8cg”Self-defense” sure buddy

    • @RoyalHungarianAF
      @RoyalHungarianAF 2 місяці тому +10

      Don't you see the video? He had no helmet or press marked bulletproof vest. He was in civilian clothes like the most of the Serbian paramilitary around him. So definitely not a deliberate shot against a reporter but against a popped up civilian clothes target (sniper presumed a chetnik).

  • @gr1fix
    @gr1fix 2 місяці тому +3

    I don't get the edgy 14-year old croats in the comments :D

    • @gr1fix
      @gr1fix Місяць тому +5

      @WSINH im finnish

  • @chips1583
    @chips1583 2 місяці тому +3

    Lik izvještava o balkanskom klanju iliti tocnije građanskom ratu

    • @denisk1096
      @denisk1096 Місяць тому

      450 godina su vam babe i prababe služile turcima za rasplod,prošlo pored vas i Barok,renesansa i sve ostalo što jedan narod ćini kulturnim,a to se najbolje vidi na što vam lići otađbina(dijeca vam se ubijaju u školi,radite čevape jedni od drugih,Rio tinto itd.) dok sa druge strane smo mi koji pripadamo zapadnom svijetu i demokraciji sa svim manama i vrlinama te demokracije!Pa vaša mladost dolazi raditi kod nas 3 mijeseca i to im je dovoljno za ostatak godine u otađbini!Tiješi se sa građanskim ratom turski potomče,niste ni srbi jer vaši geni pokazuju da ste više turci od muslimana u BiH!Pozdravi Dobricu Čosića,on vam je najbolje objasnio što je srž vašeg postojanja!Laž,laž i samo laž!

    • @ADogNamedElmo
      @ADogNamedElmo Місяць тому +3

      Izvještava o srpskoj agresiji

  • @1.ramskabrigadahvo560
    @1.ramskabrigadahvo560 2 місяці тому +7

    This happen's when you are with Chetniks

  • @Okinawa1914
    @Okinawa1914 2 місяці тому +36

    "ZA DOM SPREMNI " ✋🇭🇷

    • @Vdst5244
      @Vdst5244 2 місяці тому +1

      Za dom spremni su u jamupospremljeni😂
      1945

    • @Okinawa1914
      @Okinawa1914 2 місяці тому

      @@Vdst5244 Nikad oni su "živi mrtvaci " ✋🇭🇷🔥

  • @ClipeusCroatorum
    @ClipeusCroatorum 2 місяці тому +5

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @user-kc6qr5eo1k
    @user-kc6qr5eo1k 2 місяці тому +4

    Ko ce da objasni hrvatima da su reporteri neutralni 😂

    • @tomislav_radic
      @tomislav_radic 2 місяці тому +10

      Koliko ste novinara, humanitaraca i mirovnih misija NAMJERNO porokali, trebao bi šutit 😉

    • @thejosh3855
      @thejosh3855 2 місяці тому +4

      Nisi neutralan ako se družiš sa četnicima koji napadaju grad

    • @ajmo-fi7mj
      @ajmo-fi7mj 2 місяці тому

      ​@@thejosh3855 evo reporter se druzi sa ukrajinskim vojncima i on "neutralan" za srbe 😂😂😂😂

    • @denisk1096
      @denisk1096 Місяць тому

      @@user-kc6qr5eo1k živo me zanima što bi ti na to rekli dva ruska reportera koje ste ubili 91.,10 km od Kostajnice i zakopali u šumi sa autom!

    • @user-kc6qr5eo1k
      @user-kc6qr5eo1k Місяць тому

      @@thejosh3855 A vi ste sve nevini