US EditionDrone Kills French Photojournalist in Ukraine
Antoni Lallican was the first journalist killed by a drone in Ukraine as Russian forces increasingly target media workers, with 111 killed since the invasion began, officials said.
- On Friday morning at 9.20 local time, Antoni Lallican, French photojournalist, was killed by a Russian drone strike near Druzhkivka, about 15 kilometers from the line of contact.
- Lallican had travelled to Ukraine in March 2022 to document the Donbas mining basin, with work published in Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, Der Spiegel, Zeit and Die Welt, winning the 2024 Victor Hugo Prize for Committed Photography.
- Kyiv Independent photographer Hryhoriy Ivanchenko was wounded and is in stable condition, and both journalists wore personal protective equipment and vests marked `PRESS` when struck.
- The fourth Heavy Mechanized Brigade accused the enemy of cynically violating international humanitarian law and French President Emmanuel Macron extended condolences, saying Lallican was accompanying the Ukrainian army on the resistance front.
- Monitors report 111 media workers have died since the invasion as of September 25, and Sergiy Tomilenko said Russian drones are the main threat to journalists.
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The European Journalists' Federation has transmitted "condolence" to the family of the photographer, claiming that this is the first journalist killed by a drone in Ukraine. Article Antoni Lallican, the first journalist killed in a drone attack in Ukraine. The message of President Macron appeared for the first time in Romania TV.
French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that he "felt deep sorrow" at the death of photographer Antoni Lallican, who was killed in a drone attack during a service assignment in the Danube region in eastern Ukraine,...
The journalist died this Friday, October 3 in a drone strike, while he was on report in the Donbass with his injured Ukrainian colleague George Ivanchenko. Emmanuel Macron denounced Russia's responsibility.
He was clearly recognizable as a press representative: a photographer from France was killed in a drone attack in eastern Ukraine. Journalists' organisations speak of a »war crime«.
The 37-year-old French photographer was killed by a drone on Friday, who announced the Syndicat national des journalistes in a press release.
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