Ryan Evans, Reuters Safety Adviser in Ukraine, Killed in Missile Strike at 38

Two of the agency’s journalists were hospitalized, with one suffering serious injury, according to the news organization

The wreckage of a mid-sized building that appears to be a couple stories tall, with several people standing and pointing as they work on it following the destruction.
Ukrainian emergency services carry out a search and rescue operation among the rubble of a destroyed hotel after a strike in the town of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region on Aug. 25, 2024. A member of the Reuters news agency was missing and two others were wounded in a Russian strike on a hotel in the east Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the agency said. A search and rescue operation was underway at the Hotel Sapphire, where Reuters said six of its crew covering the war, were staying. (Photo by)

Ryan Evans, a safety adviser for Reuters, has been killed in what appeared to be a Russian missile strike on his hotel in Ukraine on Saturday, according to the news agency. He was 38 years old. Two other members of Reuters’ team covering the war in Ukraine were hospitalized in the attack, one of them injured seriously.

Evans was a retired British soldier who has provided support for Reuters and advised its journalists on safety around the world, including for their coverage of Ukraine, Israel and at the Paris Olympics. He began working with the agency in 2022.

Mike Roe

Mike Roe joined the staff as Weekend News Editor for TheWrap in 2023. Before that, he wrote “The 30 Rock Book” for publisher Abrams and won an L.A. Press Club award for his oral history of “30 Rock’s” “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.” Previously, Mike spent more than a decade as a journalist for NPR station LAist/KPCC,…

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