A Russian journalist has been killed in a drone attack in eastern Ukraine, his news organisation said Sunday, days after the death of another correspondent near the front line.

“Our correspondent Nikita Tsitsagi was killed during an attack by Ukrainian army drones,” News.Ru posted on Telegram.

It said the attack happened around the Saint-Nicolas monastery near the town of Vuhledar, a small coal mining town which has been the scene of fierce fighting for the past three months, since Russia launched its spring offensive.

On Thursday, a journalist for Russian state television was killed and another wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike in Golmivsky, a Russian-controlled village in the Donetsk region.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said earlier this month that “at least 30” of the country’s journalists had been killed since the start of the conflict in Ukraine. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

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