The documentarian Mantas Kvedaravicius is reported killed in Mariupol.

A Lithuanian documentary filmmaker has been killed within the besieged southern metropolis of Mariupol, in line with his colleagues and the Ukrainian Protection Ministry’s data company.

The company stated on Sunday that the award-winning filmmaker, Mantas Kvedaravicius, had been killed in an assault by Russia “whereas attempting to go away Mariupol.”

A Lithuanian information company, 15min, reported that Mr. Kvedaravicius was rushed to a hospital however couldn’t be saved. The studies couldn’t be independently confirmed.

Mr. Kvedaravicius, 45, had spent years overlaying the battle in Ukraine. His movie “Mariupolis,” which premiered on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2016, presents a searing portrait of the southern port metropolis, which battled Russian-backed fighters in 2014.

In a 2016 interview with the Odessa Overview, a month-to-month journal, Mr. Kvedaravicius stated that he had needed to seize “how common folks stick with it with their on a regular basis lives mere steps away from a struggle zone, gunshots, explosions and dying.”

“The factories, the ocean, the omnipresent troopers, the sounds of the violin mixing with the sound of the exploding shells — all of this varieties the surrealism of an bizarre metropolis throughout wartime,” he advised the Odessa Overview.

Since Russia’s invasion, Mariupol has emerged as an emblem of the humanitarian disaster sweeping Ukraine. Weeks of Russian bombardment on town has trapped hundreds of civilians with restricted their entry to meals, water and electrical energy.

In 2011, Mr. Kvedaravicius was awarded the Amnesty Worldwide Movie Prize for “Barzakh,” his movie about Russia’s struggle in Chechnya.

As studies of Mr. Kvedaravicius’ dying circulated on Sunday, fellow filmmakers and journalists posted messages of mourning and condolences on social media.

“RIP dearest gifted Mantas. A horrible loss for Lithuanian cinema group and all of the world,” Giedre Zickyte, a fellow Lithuanian documentary director and producer, wrote on Fb. “Our hearts are damaged.”

Vitaly Mansky, a Russian movie director, wrote that Mr. Kvdaravicuis was killed “with a digicam in his fingers” whereas working to doc a “struggle of evil, in opposition to the entire world.”

The information of Mr. Kvdaravicius’s dying got here after the dying of a outstanding Ukrainian photojournalist filmmaker, Maks Levin, whose physique was discovered close to the capital of Kyiv on Saturday, in line with the workplace of Ukraine’s prosecutor basic.