Reuters confirms death of British employee in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk

Rubble being cleared away in Kramatorsk. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Reuters has reported the death of Ryan Evans, a safety advisor working as part of a news team, in a Russian strike on the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast.

Source: ВВС, citing a statement by Reuters

Details: Reuters reported that safety advisor Ryan Evans, a UK national, was one of six Reuters employees staying at the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk when it was hit by the Russians.

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It added that two other members of the team have been hospitalised as a result of the attack, one of them with serious injuries.

Previously:

• Ukrainian law enforcement agencies had reported that an unnamed 40-year-old British citizen who worked for a foreign media outlet had been killed in the Russian strike on the Sapphire Hotel.
• The Prosecutor’s Office said six civilians, four of them journalists, sustained injuries of varying degrees of severity in the Russian attack.
• Vadym Filashkin, Head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, had previously reported that four Reuters journalists from Ukraine, the US, Latvia and Germany had been injured in the Russian strike.

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