US EditionFrench Photojournalist Killed by Russian Drone Strike in Ukraine
Antoni Lallican was the 14th journalist killed covering the Ukraine conflict and the first to die from a drone strike, highlighting increased risks from Russian drone attacks, officials said.
- French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine, as reported by Ukraine's 4th Separate Mechanized Brigade on October 3, 2025.
- Ukrainian photographer Heorhii Ivanchenko was injured in the same attack and is in stable condition, according to the brigade.
- The brigade condemned the attack, stating it violated international humanitarian law and confirmed both journalists were wearing protective gear marked 'Press.'
- French President Emmanuel Macron expressed condolences, stating he learned with 'deep sadness' of Lallican's death as a result of a 'Russian drone attack.
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The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Georgy Tykhyi called a “targeted strike” the attack of a Russian drone, which killed French journalist and photographer Anthony Lallican in the Donetsk region and injured his Ukrainian colleague Georgy...
The third French journalist killed in Donbass while carrying out his duties in Ukraine has died. His Ukrainian colleague was seriously wounded.
According to press organizations, Parisian Antoni Lallican is the first journalist to be killed by a remotely piloted aircraft in war.
Antoni Lallican, 37, had left his career as a pharmacist to become a photojournalist. His reports led him from Lebanon to Ukraine, where he lost his life.
French Photojournalist Killed by Russian Drone in Ukraine
The head of the Ukrainian Union of Journalists, Serhiy Tomilenko, told Ukrainian media that Lallican had been killed near the town of Druzhkivka, one of the hottest sectors of the 780-mile front line in Ukraine's Donbas region.
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