France, Oct. 4 -- Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in more than three years of war with Russia.

Lallican, 37, was embedded with a Ukrainian brigade near the front line in Donbas when he was killed in a drone attack on the area, the Ukrainian military said. They attributed the strike to Russia.

A Ukrainian photographer, Georgiy Ivanchenko, was wounded in the same attack. His condition is reported to be stable.

Both were wearing protective equipment marked "Press", according to the International and European Federations of Journal...