French President Emmanuel Macron mourned Soldin's death in a tweet on Tuesday. He was with four colleagues at the time of the attack but the other journalists were not injured, the news agency said. Journalist killed near Bakhmut: Arman Soldin, a video journalist for Agence France-Presse was killed near the embattled city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the French news agency said on Twitter. Soldin, who was a French citizen with Bosnian origins, was killed by rocket fire on the outskirts of the town of Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut, AFP said, citing colleagues who witnessed the incident. Blinken’s comments come on the same day the US announced an additional $1.2 billion in aid to Ukraine intended to bolster air defenses and keep up ammunition supplies. UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Tuesday that the planned move won't be a decisive breakthrough and that people shouldn't expect a film-like counteroffensive because, he says, "the real world doesn't work like that." At a joint news conference with Cleverly, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he thinks Ukraine has the resources it needs to retake territory in the anticipated counteroffensive. Here are other headlines you should know:Īnticipated counteroffensive: There's been recent rumors of a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia. According to the Pentagon, the Ukrainian military downed a Russian missile using the Patriot missile defense system. All but two of the 25 cruise missiles fired by Russia overnight Tuesday were intercepted by the Ukrainian Air Force, officials said.
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