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A British safety adviser working with a team of journalists was killed after a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Reuters news agency confirmed on Sunday.
Ryan Evans, 38, was staying at the Hotel Sapphire with colleagues in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region when it was hit by a Russian missile on Saturday night.
Two other members of the six-person Reuters crew were hospitalised with injuries.
Local officials said the hotel was struck by an Iskander-M Russian ballistic missile, leaving the reporters with blast injuries, concussions and cuts on the body.
Associated Press reporters at the scene described the hotel as “rubble”, with excavators being used to clear debris hours after the attack.

Besides the hotel, a nearby multi-storey building was also destroyed, said Donetsk regional Governor Vadym Filashkin.
Reuters said it was “devastated” by the loss of its security adviser. It said the strike left two of its journalists in hospital, one with serious injuries, while three others were safe.
Reuters said Evans had “helped keep so many of our journalists safe as they covered events around the world. He was a dear colleague and friend, and we will miss him terribly”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strike. “For all this, the world must not stop putting pressure on the terrorist state,” he said, referring to Russia following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian Defence Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Kramatorsk – the last major city under Ukrainian control in the Donetsk region – is often used as a base for aid workers and foreign journalists.
Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region also came under Russian fire, resulting in multiple civilian injuries, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.
In Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv region, five people were injured, including a four-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two houses were hit by a Russian strike.




In Kharkiv city, eight people were wounded when a two-storey house was set on fire by a Russian attack.
In Russia, five people died in Ukrainian shelling in the border region of Belgorod, officials said on Sunday.
Twelve other people were wounded in the Russian village of Rakitone, 38km (23 miles) from the Ukrainian border, including a 16-year-old girl reported to be in a critical condition, said regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov on Sunday.
Another man also died in a separate drone attack on the border village of Solovevka, Gladkov wrote later on social media.
Kyiv claimed further advances into Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday, where it launched a counteroffensive on August 6.
Zelensky claimed Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Kursk had yielded small advances – “from one to three kilometres” – and taken control of two more Russian settlements.
Catching Russia off guard, Kyiv’s incursion has rattled Moscow and displaced more than 130,000 people, but has not slowed the Russian troops’ advance in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine, meanwhile, accused neighbouring Moscow-allied Belarus – which allowed Russia to use its territory as a launch pad for the February 2022 invasion – of “concentrating” troops on the border and warned it to stop “unfriendly” actions.
Late on Sunday, Kyiv said Ukrainian intelligence had found Belarus was building up equipment and troops on the border “under the guise of exercises”.
The foreign ministry said Ukrainian intelligence had also recorded the presence of fighters from the Wagner mercenary group – some of whom are being hosted by Belarus after their leader’s failed rebellion last year.
It warned Minsk to “cease unfriendly actions and withdraw forces away from Ukraine’s state border”.
In 2022, Minsk allowed Russian troops to station in Belarus for “drills” before Moscow launched its invasion in February.
Ukraine also said military exercises in the border area pose a “global security” threat because of the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant – the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Associated Press and Agence France-Presse


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