France posthumously awarded AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, who was killed while working in Ukraine, the Legion d'Honneur (Legion of Honour) on July 14. Soldin, AFP's video coordinator in Ukraine, was killed in a rocket attack in eastern Ukraine on May 9, more than a year after the Russian invasion began. He was 32 years old. Soldin was given the chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur with effect from June 28 by a presidential decree issued on July 13. Born in Sarajevo, Soldin was a French national who said he was drawn to telling stories of people displaced by fighting, stemming from his family's experience fleeing conflict.
France Awards Journalist Killed Working In Ukraine Its Highest Order Of Merit
AFP journalist Arman Soldin smiles to a photographer as a cat stands on his shoulder during an assignment for AFP in Ukraine on November 11, 2022.