The ministry has not yet specified the circumstances of this death.
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“We have heard the sad news”, said the Quai d’Orsay in a written response. A Frenchman was killed, “mortally wounded in battle” in Ukraine, announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Friday, June 3. The ministry presents its condolences to his family. The identity of this man has not been communicated, nor the place where he perished.
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This is the third French death in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on Thursday February 24. This announcement comes just four days after the death of Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, French journalist who worked for BFMTV, killed near Sievierodonetsk, lundi. Another journalist, Franco-Irish Pierre Zakrzewski, died on March 14 northwest of kyiv, the capital.
Earlier during the day, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, recalled that “France stands in solidarity with the hardships suffered by the Ukrainian people”in a communiqué. The fighting continues on the 100th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The offensive is concentrating on the Donbass region, more particularly on Sievierodonetsk, a strategic city in the east of the country that Ukrainian troops are trying to defend.