MOSCOW, August 15 (RIA Novosti) - Two journalists were killed and 10 wounded covering the fighting in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, an official with the Russian Union of Journalists said on Friday.

"Photographer Alexander Klimchuk, who worked for RIA Novosti, among other agencies, and Grigol Chikhladze, a correspondent for Russian Newsweek magazine, were killed," said Gennady Dzyuba, the president of the union's association of military press.

He said that among the 10 journalists who were wounded during combat activities were: Alexander Sladkov, Leonid Losev, Igor Uklein from the Rossiya TV channel, Alexander Kots of the popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Leonid Kanfer and Viktor Muzalevsky from REN-TV.

He added that the issue of financial aid to families of those killed and wounded was under discussion.