WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has condemned a rocket attack in Ukraine over the weekend that injured Reuters journalists and killed a security adviser at the news agency, and offered condolences to Reuters, a national security spokesman said in a post on X on Tuesday.
“We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms and extend our deepest condolences to @Reuters for the loss of one of its members,” wrote NSC spokesman Sean Savett.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk had been hit by a Russian Iskander, a ballistic missile that can strike up to 500 kilometers away.
Reuters could not independently verify whether the missile that hit the hotel came from Russia or whether the attack on the building was deliberate.
Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists wounded in an attack on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city, the news agency reported on Sunday. Evans worked as a security adviser for the agency.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Rami Ayyub, editing by Timothy Heritage and Kevin Liffey)
