Overview

• French anti-terror prosecutors opened a war-crimes investigation on October 5 and assigned the case to the OCLCH.
• Antoni Lallican, 37, was killed on October 3 near Druzhkivka in Donetsk by a suspected FPV drone while traveling in a vehicle marked PRESS.
• Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Ivanchenko was seriously wounded in the same attack.
• Ukraine's military and President Emmanuel Macron blamed Russia, and Macron denounced the strike as an unacceptable attack on press freedom.
• The inquiry could lead to national or International Criminal Court actions if violations are proven, and journalist federations say this is the first reporter killed by a drone in this war.