Ukraine - Italian journalist and Russian fixer killed in eastern Ukraine

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Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian fixer and interpreter, Andrei Mironov, were killed by mortar fire near Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on 24 May. William Roguelon, a French photographer working for the Wostok Press agency who was with them, sustained leg injuries from the same shell. “We would like to express our deep sadness and offer our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims,” Reporters Without Borders research director Lucie Morillon (...)

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