Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine has strongly condemned the killing of a British journalist working for the Reuters news agency.
It also said the events of the last few days have been “unprecedented” for the media organization and its representatives in war-torn Ukraine.
This was a reference to a Russian missile attack on a hotel in Kramatorsk where international journalists were staying.
The attack killed Ryan Evans, a British Reuters media worker, and injured several other journalists at the weekend.
Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
Evans, who was working as a safety adviser for the agency, was killed after a missile struck the Hotel Sapphire where he was staying as part of a six-person team on Saturday.
Evans, a former British soldier, had been working with Reuters since 2022 and advised its journalists on safety around the world including in Ukraine, Israel and at the Paris Olympics. He was just 38.
An NUJ Ukraine spokesman described his killing as “senseless and cruel” and highlighted the continuing “stark” dangers media staff face in Ukraine.
