The French news broadcaster BFM TV said a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in eastern Ukraine, fatally hit by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation. (NBC News / AP)
“Journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff was in Ukraine to show the reality of the war. On board a humanitarian bus, alongside civilians forced to flee to escape the Russian bombs, he was fatally shot,” French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted Monday. (CNN)
He was near the city of Severodonetsk, in the east of Ukraine, where Russian troops have been advancing in recent weeks, according to statements from the French and Ukrainian foreign ministries reported by AFP. (Deadline)
BFM TV, where Leclerc-Imhoff had worked for six years, said in a statement that another colleague traveling with him, Maxime Brandstaetter, was “slightly injured.” A fixer who was traveling with them was not wounded. (WaPo)