A French photojournalist covering evacuation efforts in eastern Ukraine was killed during a Russian strike that hit the humanitarian truck he was in, officials say.
After the attack, evacuations were called off for the area, one of the last industrial hubs under Ukrainian control in the eastern province, Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, posted to Telegram on Monday. The truck was about to pick up 10 civilians when it was struck and Leclerc-Imhoff was killed, he said. A police officer in the truck was saved by his helmet, Haidai
This was Leclerc-Imhoff’s second mission to Ukraine since the Feb. 24 start of the Russian invasion, BFMTV said. The station’s association for its journalists said it was collecting messages to share with his family.
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