03 October 2025 | CPJ
Russian drone kills French journalist in Ukraine
Drone strike
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican in a Russian drone attack on Friday.
“CPJ is deeply alarmed by the Russian drone strike that killed French journalist Antoni Lallican and injured Ukrainian photojournalist Heorhii Ivanchenko, and calls on Russian and Ukrainian authorities to immediately investigate what appears to be a targeted attack,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law, not combatants.”
The drone killed Lallican while he was reporting for French photo agency Hans Lucas near the eastern city of Druzhkivka, in the Donetsk region, according to the 4th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade, a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, and Sergiy Tomilenko, the head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, a local advocacy and trade group. Ivanchenko, who was working with Lallican, was injured in the attack and is in stable condition, the reports said.
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