UKRAINE, DONETSK OBLAST, Oct. 3 — On Oct. 3, a Russian FPV drone killed French photojournalist Antoni Lallican and injured Heorgiy Ivanchenko, a photographer for the Kyiv Independent and member of the Association of Ukrainian professional photographers (UAPP), reported 4th Heavy Mechanized Brigade. 

The Russian drone attacked Lallican and Ivanchenko in Druzhkiva in Donetsk oblast, said Sergiy Tomilenko, the head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. 

Tomilenko said that Antoni Lallican had accreditation from the French Hans Lucas agency for working on the frontline. He added that Lallican is the third French journalist killed by Russians. 

UAPP reported that doctors are now operating on Ivanchenko. His condition is stable, said the 4th Heavy Mechanized Brigade. 

Antoni Lallican was a Paris-based photojournalist who worked for numerous media outlets, including Zeit, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and others. He has been reporting from Ukraine since 2022. In his work, Lallican focused on social issues in war zones worldwide. 

Heorhiy Ivanchenko is a Ukrainian photographer working freelance as a reporter for media and documentary projects since February 2022. 

From the first months of the Russian invasion, he began making photos for the Associated Press and the European Press Photo Agency. 

Starting in Borodianka, where Heorhiy was born, he continued reporting along the front line: the Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions. Now, his attention is focused on the Donetsk region. 

In April 2023, while working on material about Chasiv Yar, Russian troops destroyed his car with artillery fire. 

As of Sept. 9, Russia has killed 130 Ukrainian journalists since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, reported the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. 

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