Headline : Arman Soldin, an eternal smile

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Arman Soldin was a child of war. He was barely a year old when his mother carried him onto a humanitarian flight from their home in war-torn Sarajevo to France. 

Another conflict claimed the AFP journalist’s life in Ukraine last week when he was killed by a rocket near Bakhmut. Yet the things that come up again and again when people talk about him are his smile, his infectious good humour and his deep humanity. In his 32 years, Arman touched an awful lot of hearts.

Praised widely for his courage and professionalism, he spent his last days not only depicting the intensity of the fighting in Ukraine but also the terrible vulnerability of ordinary people you seldom see in the headlines, who live under constant threat.

In bomb-scarred Siversk, Arman followed Oleksandr, a welder who delivered bread on a puttering moped to isolated old people near the front line. He spent a night in a field hospital near Bakhmut with Ukrainian soldiers wounded in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. On May 1, he tweeted of his “pure terror” when a volley of Russian rockets landed near him and a small AFP team. 

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