Overview

• French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, 37, was killed on Oct. 3 in eastern Ukraine, with reports placing the strike in the Donetsk region city of Druzhkivka.
• Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Ivanchenko was injured in the same incident, and both reporters were wearing vests marked Press, according to journalists’ unions and the unit escorting them.
• President Emmanuel Macron said Lallican was a victim of Russian drones, while the accompanying brigade described a selective attack by an enemy FPV drone.
• Journalists’ organizations condemned the strike as a war crime and called on authorities to open a formal probe, with the precise circumstances still under review.
• Federations report this as the first journalist death by drone in the Ukraine war, with total media fatalities since 2022 cited at 17 to 22 depending on the source.