23 October 2025 | CPJ
Russian drone attack kills Ukrainian cameraman
Drone strike
A car transporting a TV crew of Ukraine’s state-funded international broadcaster Freedom was hit by a Lancet, a long-range drone often used against tanks and armored vehicles, as the journalists were reporting on the aftermath of October 22’s Russian drone strike on a gas station in Kramatorsk, in the eastern region of Donetsk, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Donbas-focused project Donbas.Realii.
The drone killed Freedom correspondent Hramova, also known as Hubanova, and camera operator Karmazin, according to Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin. Freedom TV special correspondent Oleksandr Kolychiev was injured in the attack, Freedom TV reported. He suffered shrapnel wounds and an open fracture, according to Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office.
Read the original article here.
