A journalist from the French agency AFP was killed in a shelling near the besieged Ukrainian city on Tuesday. bakhmut.
Deceased, Arman Soldintraveling with four colleagues from the same agency and a group of Ukrainian soldiers Victims of a Grad rocket attack around Tchassiv IarA town near Bakhmut.
It is an area frequently bombarded by Russian troops trying to complete the conquest of Bakhmut.
Soldin, 32, a video coordinator UkraineAccording to the news of AFP, although his friends were not harmed, he lost his life in the attack.
“His death is a grim reminder of the risks and dangers faced by journalists who cover the conflict in Ukraine on a daily basis.Fabrice Fries, head of AFP, stressed that he acknowledged that “the agency as a whole has been destroyed”.
Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF, a Paris-based organisation), expressed the organization’s “great regret” that it was “a tragedy for all those who defend the independence and reliability of information”.
sold The third French reporter to be killed in the war in Ukraine after the French-Irish Fox cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was shot and killed on March 14, 2022. Near Kiev and BFM news television cameraman Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was the victim of a cannonball while watching the evacuation of civilians in Luhansk on 30 May last year.