Overview
- Kostiantyn Huzenko, 28, a Kyiv photographer who served as a press officer with the 35th Marine Brigade, was reported killed on Nov. 1 in a Russian strike in eastern Ukraine.
- The 30th Marine Corps said its service members were targeted in a Russian attack in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast two days after Huzenko’s death, without identifying the affected brigade.
- Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation opened a Nov. 3 probe into possible negligence in military service during martial law related to the deadly strike.
- Friends and colleagues told the Kyiv Independent that Huzenko was likely among those killed in the Dnipropetrovsk attack that reportedly hit a troop award ceremony, a detail still under investigation.
- Huzenko had volunteered with Ukrainer since 2020 and later documented the war as a military photographer, as threats to journalists intensified with lethal FPV drone and precision strikes, including the Oct. 3 attack that killed French photographer Antoni Lallican.