Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius has been killed trying to leave the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is under siege by Russian troops. The press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced this on Twitter on Sunday. Russian filmmaker Vitali Manski had previously reported the death of his 45-year-old colleague. He was killed “with the camera in his hand,” Manski wrote on Facebook.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was “shocked” by the news. was in the port city in southeastern Ukraine to “document Russian war atrocities”. With his film “Mariupolis” he had already documented the siege of Mariupol in 2014 by Russian troops. The film ran at the Berlinale in 2016.
Mariupol has been cut off from food, water, medicine, electricity and gas since the recent siege. Aid organizations describe the situation on the ground as “catastrophic”.
Source: Krone
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