AFP journalist injured in drone attack near Bakhmut
Відеожурналіст агенції AFP Ділан Коллінз. Фото: СТЕФАНІ ЮССЕФ
Dylan Collins, a 35-year-old American video journalist for AFP, has been injured in a drone attack while reporting on the work of Ukrainian artillery forces near Bakhmut, Agence France Presse reports.
Collins suffered numerous shrapnel wounds as a result of the attack in the forest belt near Bakhmut.
The journalist was evacuated to the nearest hospital, where he received first aid. Doctors assure nothing threatens his health. Collins is conscious and keeps in touch with colleagues.
AFP Europe director Christine Buhagiar said the agency was investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Dylan Collins has been with AFP since 2018 as a video coordinator in Lebanon and Syria but has regularly been on assignments in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.
On 9 May, 32-year-old AFP video journalist Armand Soldin was killed in a Russian shelling near Bakhmut. He was posthumously awarded France's highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour.
As for the fighting for Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces have already retaken 35 square kilometres and advanced 1,4 km deep into the area.
