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Arman Soldin (21 March 1991 – 9 May 2023) was a Bosnian–French journalist killed at the age of 32 by a Russian-fired Grad rocket while reporting for Agence France-Presse in Ukraine near the city of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast during the Russian Invasion. His death was noted and deplored by journalists worldwide and by international leaders. France posthumously awarded him the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour).
Soldin was born on 21 March 1991 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was evacuated with his mother Oksana (later a philosophy and sociology professor) to France on 25 April 1992, at the age of 12 months. The family returned to Bosnia after the ethnic conflict 6 years later, where Soldin attended primary school, but after the divorce of his parents in 2002, he lived in Rennes in Brittany. In addition to Bosnian as his native language, Soldin spoke French, English, and Italian. Precociously interested in news and journalism, at 16 he created a YouTube compilation Sarajevo in War, set to Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni's mournful Adagio.
Soldin took the French Baccalaureate, specialising in Science, with an upper second class honour at the Lycée Saint Martin, Rennes, 2006–2009. In 2013 at University College London he attained a BA in Politics & Eastern European Studies with Politics, Economics, History, and International Relations. While there, he was co-editor in chief of its Eureka Magazine, covering politics, society, arts and culture.
At the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, University of Sarajevo his 2014 MA was in Production and Management in performing arts, and cinematography and production in film and video; then in 2014–15 he graduated from the Université Lumière, Lyon with a Masters in Journalism – New Journalistic Practices.
Arman Soldin joined Agence France-Presse in 2015 as an intern in Rome and is remembered there by video reporter Sonia Logre as "a dream intern," who "wanted to do everything, see everything, know everything. He wanted humbly to learn, had a desire to discover Italy and a deep love of life." He reported on African refugee arrivals at the small Italian island of Lampedusa. He then worked for the agency's London office, reporting in June 2018 on the stand-off between the Italian government and the Lifeline humanitarian ship with 233 migrants on board, many ill, when it arrived in Malta after a week of waiting in the Mediterranean, and in October on Nationalist Milorad Dodik winning the seat reserved for Serbs in the Bosnian collegiate presidency. In 2019 he broke a story on the thirty-nine bodies, including that of a teenager, discovered in east London in a refrigerated lorry from Belgium. During the emergence of Brexit he wrote in December 2019 on Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon's opposition and her bid for a plebiscite on Scottish independence. From 2020 he was again posted to Rome.
Known as a gifted junior footballer for Stade Rennais in western France from 2006 to 2008, he ceased competition due to a knee injury, but used his experience as a sports commentator 2021–2023 on English Premier League, UEFA Women's Euro, UEFA Super Cup matches for Canal+ France. It was work he also conducted in between postings to Ukraine.
As the Russian invasion started in February 2022, Arman volunteered immediately to be among the France-Presse agency's first special envoys. He was later rotated, against his wishes, but returned to Ukraine in September 2022, working as a video coordinator. Frequently he used his mobile phone to record subjects who would otherwise be intimidated by a video camera, such as a woman digging in her garden in Chasiv Yar, or former welder Oleksandr delivering bread to sheltering civilians on his moped in Donbass. In Kherson in December 2022, Soldin produced video for AFP of risky civilian rescues of Ukrainians stranded on islands in the Dnieper River after Russian troops retreated in November to the other side of the Dnieper, but kept snipers and artillery trained along the river, rendering it a new front line. His coverage in January 2023 showed an intense Russian offensive on Soledar, and Vuhledar, in the eastern Donetsk Oblast. In April 2023 he covered Ukrainian soldiers digging defences near Bakhmut.
Soldin was an avid social media user. One of the stories which received attention was when he and his team found an injured hedgehog in a trench, fed and released it into the wild after a couple of days. In memory of AFP video reporter Arman Soldin, Olha Chevhaniuk of the UAnimals NGO announced a ₴100,000 (€2,475.13) grant for volunteers and shelters for the rescue of hedgehogs in war zones. She said:
Arman Soldin
Arman Soldin (21 March 1991 – 9 May 2023) was a Bosnian–French journalist killed at the age of 32 by a Russian-fired Grad rocket while reporting for Agence France-Presse in Ukraine near the city of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast during the Russian Invasion. His death was noted and deplored by journalists worldwide and by international leaders. France posthumously awarded him the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour).
Soldin was born on 21 March 1991 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was evacuated with his mother Oksana (later a philosophy and sociology professor) to France on 25 April 1992, at the age of 12 months. The family returned to Bosnia after the ethnic conflict 6 years later, where Soldin attended primary school, but after the divorce of his parents in 2002, he lived in Rennes in Brittany. In addition to Bosnian as his native language, Soldin spoke French, English, and Italian. Precociously interested in news and journalism, at 16 he created a YouTube compilation Sarajevo in War, set to Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni's mournful Adagio.
Soldin took the French Baccalaureate, specialising in Science, with an upper second class honour at the Lycée Saint Martin, Rennes, 2006–2009. In 2013 at University College London he attained a BA in Politics & Eastern European Studies with Politics, Economics, History, and International Relations. While there, he was co-editor in chief of its Eureka Magazine, covering politics, society, arts and culture.
At the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, University of Sarajevo his 2014 MA was in Production and Management in performing arts, and cinematography and production in film and video; then in 2014–15 he graduated from the Université Lumière, Lyon with a Masters in Journalism – New Journalistic Practices.
Arman Soldin joined Agence France-Presse in 2015 as an intern in Rome and is remembered there by video reporter Sonia Logre as "a dream intern," who "wanted to do everything, see everything, know everything. He wanted humbly to learn, had a desire to discover Italy and a deep love of life." He reported on African refugee arrivals at the small Italian island of Lampedusa. He then worked for the agency's London office, reporting in June 2018 on the stand-off between the Italian government and the Lifeline humanitarian ship with 233 migrants on board, many ill, when it arrived in Malta after a week of waiting in the Mediterranean, and in October on Nationalist Milorad Dodik winning the seat reserved for Serbs in the Bosnian collegiate presidency. In 2019 he broke a story on the thirty-nine bodies, including that of a teenager, discovered in east London in a refrigerated lorry from Belgium. During the emergence of Brexit he wrote in December 2019 on Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon's opposition and her bid for a plebiscite on Scottish independence. From 2020 he was again posted to Rome.
Known as a gifted junior footballer for Stade Rennais in western France from 2006 to 2008, he ceased competition due to a knee injury, but used his experience as a sports commentator 2021–2023 on English Premier League, UEFA Women's Euro, UEFA Super Cup matches for Canal+ France. It was work he also conducted in between postings to Ukraine.
As the Russian invasion started in February 2022, Arman volunteered immediately to be among the France-Presse agency's first special envoys. He was later rotated, against his wishes, but returned to Ukraine in September 2022, working as a video coordinator. Frequently he used his mobile phone to record subjects who would otherwise be intimidated by a video camera, such as a woman digging in her garden in Chasiv Yar, or former welder Oleksandr delivering bread to sheltering civilians on his moped in Donbass. In Kherson in December 2022, Soldin produced video for AFP of risky civilian rescues of Ukrainians stranded on islands in the Dnieper River after Russian troops retreated in November to the other side of the Dnieper, but kept snipers and artillery trained along the river, rendering it a new front line. His coverage in January 2023 showed an intense Russian offensive on Soledar, and Vuhledar, in the eastern Donetsk Oblast. In April 2023 he covered Ukrainian soldiers digging defences near Bakhmut.
Soldin was an avid social media user. One of the stories which received attention was when he and his team found an injured hedgehog in a trench, fed and released it into the wild after a couple of days. In memory of AFP video reporter Arman Soldin, Olha Chevhaniuk of the UAnimals NGO announced a ₴100,000 (€2,475.13) grant for volunteers and shelters for the rescue of hedgehogs in war zones. She said: