Evacuations from the Luhansk region have been formally halted after Russian soldiers opened fire on a van carrying passengers on Monday, killing Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, a French journalist.
On Telegram, Serhii Haidai, the chief of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said, “T “The evacuation has been put on hold. The ruscists opened fire on a car that was about to pick up passengers. A journalist from France was assassinated “he penned
He went on to say that today an armoured truck was on its way to evacuate ten persons from the area when it was hit by hostile fire. Shell shrapnel shredded the vehicle’s armour to shreds. The French journalist died as a result of a lethal neck wound, while a patrol police officer was saved by his helmet.
As previously reported, heavy combat has erupted in the Luhansk region’s towns of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Russian forces are using small arms, tanks, artillery, mortars, Grad, Smerch multiple launch rocket systems, and other weapons in the Donetsk region.
