"The Russian occupiers killed Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, author of the documentary 'Mariupolis', as he was trying to leave Mariupol," the Ukrainian Defense Ministry news agency said on Twitter.
The death of the documentary filmmaker was also announced by the Russian director Vitali Manski, founder of the respected Moscow festival Artdocfest to which Mantas Kvedaravicius had already been invited.
He "was killed today in Mariupol, camera in hand, in this shitty evil war against the whole world," Vitali Manski wrote on Facebook.
On Twitter, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said it was "shocked" by the news of his death.
"He was killed in Mariupol, where he was documenting Russia's wartime atrocities. His previous film, Mariupolis (2016), told the story of a beleaguered city with a strong will to live," the post continued. Lithuanian diplomacy.
Born in 1976, Mantas Kvedaravicius made a name for himself with "Mariupolis", shot in Mariupol and presented for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
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