Bohdan Bitik, a Ukrainian fixer for Corrado Zunino, a journalist from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, was shot dead in the city of Kherson,Ukraine, on 26 April.

The Italian journalist he worked with, Corrado Zunino, was also injured during the shooting.

The two journalists working for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica came under fire while reporting near the Antonivskiy Bridge on the outskirts of Kherson, in southern Ukraine.