Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravicius became killed on Saturday in Ukraine's Mariupol, a metropolis whose fate he had documented for a long time, in response to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's counsel company and a colleague.
"whereas trying to leave Mariupol, Russian occupiers killed Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius," the company tweeted on Sunday. Reuters could not automatically check the report.
"We lost a creator smartly widespread in Lithuania and within the entire world, who except the very ultimate moment, regardless of hazard, labored in Russia-occupied Ukraine," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda spoke of on Sunday.
Kvedaravicius, who become to turn 46 this 12 months, was ultimate widespread for his conflict-zone documentary "Mariupolis", which premiered at the 2016 Berlin international movie competition.
The film paints a portrait of Mariupol, a strategic port is in the breakaway area of Donetsk where professional-Russian opponents were fighting Ukrainian forces due to the fact that 2014.
Kvedaravicius was born in 1976, studied at Vilnius college and received a degree in social anthropology from the institution of Cambridge, based on the Lithuanian president's office.
"Mantas Kvedaravicius, became murdered today in Mariupol, with a camera in his fingers, in this shitty battle of evil, against the whole world," Russian movie director Vitaly Mansky, founder of the festival Artdocfest during which Kvedaravicius became a participant, stated on facebook.
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