(Reuters) -Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters workforce protecting the conflict in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists had been injured in a strike on a resort within the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Kramatorsk, the information company stated on Sunday.
Evans, who was working as a security adviser for the company, was killed after a missile struck the Lodge Sapphire the place he was staying as a part of a six-person workforce on Saturday, Reuters stated in a press release.
Two of the company’s journalists had been being handled in hospital; one in every of them was significantly injured, it stated.
“We are urgently seeking more information about the attack, including by working with the authorities in Kramatorsk, and we are supporting our colleagues and their families,” Reuters stated.
Evans, a former British soldier, had been working with Reuters since 2022 and suggested its journalists on security world wide together with in Ukraine, Israel and on the Paris Olympics. He was 38.
“We send our deepest condolences and thoughts to Ryan’s family and loved ones. Ryan has helped so many of our journalists cover events around the world; we will miss him terribly,” Reuters stated.
The three different members of the Reuters workforce who had been within the resort on the time of the strike had been accounted for and protected, the company stated.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated the resort was hit by a Russian Iskander missile, a ballistic missile that may strike at distances as much as 500 km (310 miles).
“An ordinary city hotel was destroyed by the Russian Iskander,” he stated in his night handle on Sunday, including the strike was “absolutely purposeful, thought out … my condolences to family and friends”.
The Russian Defence Ministry didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Reuters was not in a position to independently confirm if the missile that hit the resort was fired by Russia or if it was a deliberate strike on that constructing.
The Donetsk province’s regional prosecutor’s workplace stated in a Telegram put up earlier that the physique of a British citizen had been discovered within the rubble of a resort constructing in Kramatorsk.
The resort was “destroyed” at 10:35 p.m. native time (1935 GMT) on Saturday “probably with an Iskander-M missile”, it stated. The prosecutor’s workplace has opened a pre-trial investigation into the strike, it stated.
