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US citizen Dylan Collins made a report on Ukrainian military in Donetsk region. ...

Was attacking Russian drone: AFP journalist from the United States was injured under Bakhmut - the media

US citizen Dylan Collins made a report on Ukrainian military in Donetsk region. The journalist has been in Ukraine since the first days of a full -scale war. In Donetsk region, not far from Bakhmut, American journalist Dylan Collins, who works in the French edition of AFP, suffered multiple shrapnel wounds. About it writes CNN with reference to AFP reporters who witnessed the event. It is reported that Collins was injured as a result of an attack of a drone by Russian invaders.

At the time of the shelling, he made a report on the Ukrainian military to positions in the forest near Bakhmut. The American reporter was hospitalized with multiple shrapnel wounds. According to doctors, the life of a 35-year-old American is currently threatening. "We are investigating all the circumstances of this incident. We think about Dylan and his loved ones," said AFP director in Europe Christine Bukhagiar. According to La Provence, Dylan Collins joined AFP in 2018.

Earlier, the American reporter also covered events in the Middle East, including a conflict around Nagorny Karabakh. In the first days of a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the journalist arrived in Kiev. Recall that on May 9 it became known about the death of AFP journalist Arman Soldin. He worked as a video coordinator in Ukraine and died as a result of shelling in his eyes in his colleagues near the city of Yar in the Bakhmut district.