Two Reuters reporters sustained wounds, and the driver of their car was killed in a Ukrainian shelling near Severodonetsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic, RT’s Igor Zhdanov reported on Friday.
"We got under a shelling attack when entering Severodonetsk. One of the shells hit the car two Reuters reporters were riding in five to 10 meters ahead of us. <…> The driver was killed immediately, and the reporters have been hospitalized," Zhdanov wrote on his Telegram channel.
He confirmed that his team was safe, even though the attack had been targeted with the use of a drone, noting that the two cars were with civilian license plates.
Last week, a French journalist was killed when Russian forces struck a vehicle, used for the evacuation of civilians in Luhansk Oblast, a Ukrainian foreign ministry announced.
Frédéric Leclerc Imhoff, a French reporter who was covering the evacuation process, was killed near Severodonetsk in Ukraine after the vehicle he was in came under fire, according to a statement posted by Luhansk’s regional governor Serhiy Haidai.
French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “On board, a humanitarian bus, alongside civilians forced to flee to escape Russian bombs, he was fatally shot.”
To those who carry out the difficult mission of informing in theatres of operations, I would like to reiterate France’s unconditional support.”
Macron added he shared the “pain of the family, relatives, and colleagues” of Mr. Leclerc-Imhoff, to whom he sent his condolences.
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