French President Emmanuel Macron announced that photojournalist Anthony Lalicane had died while accompanying Ukrainian armed forces in Ukraine.
“I express my deepest condolences to his family, his loved ones and all his colleagues“, he wrote on Facebook.
According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Lalicane was killed on October 3 in a drone strike. A Ukrainian journalist was also injured in the drone strike.
“Anthony Lalicane was on a mission in Donbas for the photojournalism agency Hans Lucas, based in Carcassonne,“, the statement said.