Taras Protsyuk

UNIAN ARCHIVE The television cameraman of Reuters agency Taras Protsyuk covers clashes between opposition protesters and riot police next to the presidential office in Kiev, in this March 9, 2001 file photo. Protsyuk was killed in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Apr. 8, 2003 when a U. S. tank fired a shell at the media hotel where they were working. Television cameraman Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian national based in Warsaw, died after the blast at the Palestine Hotel, base for much of the foreign media in the Iraqi capital. Protsyuk had worked for Reuters since 1993 and had reported from conflicts in Bosnia, Chechnya Afghanistan and Kosovo. Eleven journalists were killed in Iraq already. Photo by Viktor Pobedinsky / UNIAN / NOT USE FOR AGENCIES