Arman Soldin was working with other journalists near Bahmut when the group was caught in the middle of the attack. The other members of the group survived without injury.
Reporter of the news agency AFP Arma Soldin, 32, has been killed in eastern Ukraine. Soldin, who worked on the video side of a French news agency, was reporting near the town of Chasiv Yar when the shooting started in the area.
Other AFP reporters who were there say that they and a group of Ukrainian soldiers were fired upon with Grad rockets. Soldin was lying on the ground as the rocket hit near him. The rest of the team survived the attack unscathed.
Chasiv Jar is located near the town of Bahmut, which has been the focus of fierce fighting for months.
Soldin, who was killed, is a French citizen born in Sarajevo and has reportedly worked for AFP since 2015.
Soldin had been reporting on Russia’s war of aggression from the ground in Ukraine since February 2022. Soldin moved to Ukraine permanently in September of last year and regularly traveled to the front lines of the war.
– The loss of Armani has crushed the entire office, AFP’s board chairman Fabrice Fries comment.
– His death is a gruesome reminder of the risks and dangers that journalists face every day when reporting on the conflict in Ukraine, Fries continues.
Soldin’s death means that 11 journalists, assistants and drivers have been killed while reporting on the war in Ukraine, says the organization Reporters Without Borders.
Source: AFP
The news was updated on May 9, 2023 at 21:43 with information about Soldini’s background and comments from AFP’s Fires.