UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Oct. 23 — Russian troops killed Alyona Hubanova and Yevhen Karmazin, journalist and cameraman of Freedom TV-channel with a Lancet drone. They also injured a special correspondent, Oleksandr Kolychev, said Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s ombudsman. 

Earlier, the Russian FPV drone killed French photojournalist Antoni Lallican and injured Heorgiy Ivanchenko, a Ukrainian photographer in Donetsk oblast. 

Dim, a Ukrainian TV channel, noted that during the Russian strike, journalists were at the gas station. 

“Journalists are civilians, and they are protected by international humanitarian law. They were doing their professional duty — documenting the consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine and bringing the truth to the world, despite the constant danger,” Lubinets wrote.

Hubanova and Karmazin were born in the Donetsk region, and since 2021, they have worked for Ukraine’s state media. In 2023, Hybanova was awarded the medal of Olha of Kyiv of the third degree, a Ukrainian state award. Russia killed Hubanova at the age of 43 and Karmazin at the age of 33. 

Alan Berset, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, expressed his concern over the killing of journalists in the Donetsk region. 

As of Oct. 23, Russia has killed 135 Ukrainian journalists since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion, reported the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. 

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