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French journalist killed by drone in Ukraine, photo agency says | |
By Max Saltman, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN | |
Updated: | |
5:02 PM EDT, Fri October 3, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed by a drone in | |
Ukraine on Friday, according to his employer and French President | |
Emmanuel Macron. | |
Lallican, 38, was on assignment for the Hans Lucas photo agency when he | |
was killed Friday morning, according to the agency. | |
The attack also injured a Ukrainian journalist, Heorgiy Ivanchenko, | |
according to the (IFJ-EFJ), which added that both journalists were | |
wearing bulletproof vests marked “Press.” | |
In a statement to CNN, the Hans Lucas Agency said that Lallican was an | |
award-winning photographer who had worked for the company since 2018. | |
“His work focused on social and societal issues, with a particular | |
focus on conflict zones and human rights,” the statement said. | |
“Particularly committed to the conflict in Ukraine, he had been | |
traveling there regularly since the start of the Russian invasion in | |
February 2022.” | |
Macron on social media that Lallican “was accompanying the Ukrainian | |
army on the front of resistance” and was “a victim of a Russian | |
drone attack.” | |
“I learned with deep sadness of his death, a victim of a Russian | |
drone attack,” Macron wrote as he extended his “heartfelt | |
condolences” to Lallican’s family. | |
Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha also his | |
condolences in a post. | |
Lallican was killed by a Russian first-person view (FPV) drone, | |
according to a social media post by Sergiy Tomilenko, president of the | |
National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). | |
“Currently, the main threat to journalists, as well as to all | |
civilians, is Russian drones hunting people,” Tomilenko wrote. | |
CNN has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment. | |
Civilians in Ukrainian cities near the front lines have previously that | |
Russian FPV drones are a constant threat, with virtually no target off | |
limits: pedestrians, cars, buses and even ambulances have suffered | |
attacks. | |
Russia has repeatedly maintained that it does not target civilians. | |
Not counting Lallican, at least 16 journalists have died reporting on | |
the war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion, according to the The | |
vast majority were killed during the first year of the war. | |
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