Antoni Lallican

Antoni Lallican (January 1988 – October 3, 2025) was a French photojournalist. He was killed by a drone while covering the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Early life and career Lallican was born in January 1988 in Paris,

Photo-journalist Lallican developed an interest in conflict areas; his work took him to Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. when the vehicle he and a Ukrainian colleague, Grigoriy Ivanchenko, were in was hit by a drone. The drone was controlled via First Person View (FPV) and was targeted from the Russian side of the conflict. Ivanchenko, was seriously injured in the same attack and his leg had to be amputated. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the car was hit on the outskirts of Komyshuvakha, near Zaporizhzhia, when taking journalists on a visit to a unit of the 4th Ukrainian Armoured Brigade. The location was about 15 kilometres from the front line. Lallican was at least the 17th journalist to be killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war, and according to a joint statement by the European and International Federations of Journalists, the first to be killed by a drone. He was the fourth French death from within the journalism profession.

On 5 October 2025 the French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Parquet national antiterroriste (PNAT) said it had referred Lallican's killing for investigation as a potential war crime.

Personal life As a teenager he was a competitive rower for his club, Sport nautique Compiégnois. He was part of the coxed four that won the French 2004 title in Vichy. According to Agence France-Presse, who interviewed his parents, Lallican had entered into a civil partnership with his partner about a month before his death.