Reuters crew member Ryan Evans killed by the Kramatorsk hotel strike

Ryan Evans, a safety advisor with the UK news agency Reuters, was killed in a Russian strike on the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk, reports Reuters.

Evans was staying at the hotel as part of a six-person team when a missile hit it.

Other two journalists from the Reuters crew were injured and have been hospitalized. One of them was severely wounded.

Ryan Evans. Photo by Reuters on Facebook

"We are urgently seeking more information about the attack, including by working with the authorities in Kramatorsk, and we are supporting our colleagues and their families," Reuters says.

Evans, a former British soldier, had been working with Reuters since 2022 and advised its journalists on safety around the world including in Ukraine, Israel and at the Paris Olympics. He was 38.

"We send our deepest condolences and thoughts to Ryan's family and loved ones. Ryan has helped so many of our journalists cover events around the world; we will miss him terribly," Reuters writes.

The three other members of the Reuters team who were in the hotel at the time of the strike are safe, the agency reports.

As reported earlier, the body of a UK journalist was retreived by emergency responders from under the rubble of a Kramatorsk hotel on the evening of August 25.

According to law enforcers, the casualties inlcuded four injured reporters: citizens of the USA, Germany, Latvia, and Ukraine. The injured journalists, aged 38, 40, 41 and 46, were provided with medical assistance. Two of them have been hospitalized, the others are being treated on an outpatient basis.

The National Police notes that Russia struck the hotel where a crew of foreign reporters was staying with an Iskander-M missile.

According to the IMI, Ryan Evans is the 85th media worker to die in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale aggression.