France on Wednesday known as for the safety of journalists masking Russia’s struggle in Ukraine, following the deaths of a Fox Information cameraman and a Ukrainian producer close to Kyiv.
“I recall the duty incumbent on armed forces to guard journalists according to worldwide humanitarian legislation,” International Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian mentioned in an announcement.
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“I condemn any motion focusing on them with the best firmness,” he mentioned, including that “these occasions illustrate the intense hazard within the Ukrainian theatre at present.”
Fox Information mentioned Tuesday that French-Irish cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova died and correspondent Benjamin Corridor was wounded when their car was struck Monday by incoming hearth in Horenka, exterior the Ukrainian capital.
Le Drian singled out Zakrzewski as somebody “who lined a large number of theatres of struggle as a passionate fighter for the precise to tell.”
“I tackle my sincerest condolences to his and to Oleksandra Kuvshynova’s households,” he added.
The minister additionally recalled the names of different journalists killed within the three weeks of battle to date, together with US documentary maker Brent Renaud and Ukrainian journalist Evgeny Sakun.
The Ukrainian parliament’s human rights chief Lyudmyla Denisova mentioned Tuesday that one other Ukrainian journalist, Viktor Dudar, was killed in preventing across the southern port metropolis of Mykolaiv.
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