Journalist Working for AFP News Agency Killed in Ukraine

Journalist Working for AFP News Agency Killed in Ukraine
AFP journalist Arman Soldin walks in a trench as he covers the war in Ukraine, on March 18, 2023. Aris Messinis/AFP via AP
The Associated Press
Updated:

PARIS—French international news agency Agence France-Presse says its Ukraine video coordinator was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

Arman Soldin, 32, was with a team of AFP journalists traveling with Ukrainian soldiers when the group came under fire with Grad rockets, the agency said. The rest of the AFP team was uninjured.