Ukraine, the deadliest country for journalists

The war in Ukraine has already claimed thousands of civilian and military victims. Frédéric Leclerc Imhoff is the eighth journalist killed since February 24. A particularly dangerous conflict for those who make it their mission to inform on the spot. “The majority, six of the journalists killed, were killed in kyiv, another in Mariupol. The first was a Ukrainian cameraman, who died on March 1. On March 13, it was an American journalist who was killed by bullets that aimed at his car. Later, two journalists died near kyiv, a Ukrainian fixer and the Franco-Irish Pierre Zakrzewski who accompanied him. A Russian was killed in a bombing in kyiv. On April 1, a Ukrainian journalist who worked for Reuters and the BBC was found dead in a village near the capital. The next day, a Lithuanian documentary filmmaker was killed in his car”explains Yann Haefele from the writing of franceinfo.

A disastrous and funereal count, which makes Ukraine the most dangerous country for journalists on the ground of war. “Ukraine equals the sad record held by Mexico, where there is a significant share of killings linked to drug trafficking. Elsewhere, it is mainly in conflict zones such as Yemen. Since the beginning of the “year 2022, 29 journalists have been killed”concludes Yann Haefele.