Journalist working for AFP news agency killed in Ukraine

AFP journalist Arman Soldin arrived in Ukraine to cover the war the day after the Russian invasion on February 24 2022 (Aris Messinis/AFP via AP)

A 32-year-old journalist working for the French international news agency Agence France-Presse has been killed during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

The news agency said video co-ordinator Arman Soldin was with a team of its journalists travelling with Ukrainian soldiers when the group came under fire with Grad rockets.