Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, a 32-year old French journalist, was killed on Monday, while covering the war in Ukraine for the French news channel BFMTV.
His death was confirmed by French President Emmanuel Macron on his Twitter account and reported by many news outlets.Leclerc-Imhoff is one of the many journalists who have been wounded or killed in Ukraine since the country was invaded by Russia on Feb.
24.BFMTV said Leclerc-Imhoff was covering a humanitarian mission on board an armored vehicle in the region of Severodonetsk when he was hit by a piece of a shrapnel.
He was accompanied with his colleague Maxime Brandstaetter, who was mildly wounded, and their coordinator Oksana Leuta, who did not suffer any injury, according to BFMTV, France’s leading news channel.
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