KYIV – The Ukrainian military said a photojournalist was killed and three soldiers were wounded in the past 24 hours in the eastern part of the country. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in Kyiv on February 28 that a male journalist had been killed in or near the town of Pisky, a government-held town on the front line northwest of Donetsk. The man, who was later identified as Serhiy Nikolayev, a staff photographer for the newspaper Segodnya, died from his wounds while at a military hospital. (RFE/RL, Associated Press)
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