Slain AFP Reporter's Frontline Act Of Kindness
Slain AFP Reporter's Frontline Act Of Kindness AFP video journalist Arman Soldin (L) and colleagues Oleksiy Obolensky (2ndL), Anders Linderson (C) and Emmanuel Peuchot (R) take care of a baby hedgehog found in a crater Dimitar DILKOFF Text size Picture by Dimitar Dilkoff One telling thing stands out among AFP journalist Arman Soldin's coverage of devastation in Ukraine. It was a humane act of tenderness amid the brutality of war -- the rescue of a wounded hedgehog. Soldin was killed by rocket fire on Tuesday, just days after tweeting a touching visual record that begins with the tiny mammal being scooped from a muddy crater around the same war-battered area where he lost his life. The Twitter thread traces the intricacies of nursing a creature that the team dubbed Lucky in a series of clips collectively viewed tens of thousands of times by Wednesday. "He might be missing his right eye but the guy ha