'In January 2013, a Russian judge from Belgorod, Sergey Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy, a volunteer writer to ANNA, was shot in the face and arm while accompanying an ANNA crew as it reported on a unit of the Syrian Army fighting rebel forces in the Damascus suburb of Darayya.In April 2016, the ANNA website was defaced by the group of Ukrainian hackers, Falcon Flame & Trinity.