A senior Ukrainian photographer died of wounds after a land mine exploded in Donbas, Kiev Post reported on Saturday.
The tragedy occurred in the village of Pisky located just 1.5 kilometers from Donetsk airport, which is now controlled by separatists.
Sergii Nikolaiev, 43, senior photographer of Segodnya daily Ukrainian newspaper, was covering numerous conflict zones, including wars in Georgia, Libya, Syria and Somalia.
He has become the first Ukrainian journalist, who was killed in war in eastern Ukraine and the seventh one of the entire journalists' death toll of this war.