British Reuters journalist confirmed dead after strike on hotel in Ukraine

A British journalist has been killed in a Russian missile strike on a hotel in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, officials said.

Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the town’s military administration, said: “The body of a British citizen who died during a missile attack by the Russian Federation was recovered from under the rubble of a destroyed hotel building in Kramatorsk.” 

Ukrainian emergency officials said that other journalists injured in the strike early on Sunday were American, British, German, Latvia and Ukrainian citizens.

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