A drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region on Friday, two media unions said.

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican died, said the European and International Federations of Journalists and the French National Journalists' Union.

Ukrainian journalist Heorgiy Ivanchenko was reported wounded in the same attack. Both were said to have been wearing protective vests marked "Press".

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President Emmanuel Macron blamed Russia for the killing.

"I learned with deep sadness" of the death of Antoni Lallican, who was "the victim of an attack by Russian drones", the French president posted on X, at a moment of surging tension between Russia and European countries.

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