AFP journalist injured near Bakhmut
On Monday 24 July, 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.
Source: Agence France Presse, as reported by European Pravda
Details: 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 say that nothing threatens Collins’ life: he is conscious and keeping 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.
The journalist has significant experience in conflict zones in the Middle East: in 2020, he covered the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Recall:
- On 9 May, during the Russian shelling near Bakhmut, 32-year-old AFP video journalist Arman Soldin was killed. He was posthumously awarded the highest civil award in France, the Legion of Honor.
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