Overview
- Olena Gubanova, 43, and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin, 33, were killed when a Russian Lancet drone hit their car, and journalist Oleksandr Kolychev was wounded.
- The blast struck near a service station in the Ukrainian-held city of Kramatorsk as Russian attack drones are increasingly reaching the area.
- Donetsk regional prosecutors launched an investigation under Article 438(2) of Ukraine’s criminal code for violations of the laws and customs of war.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strike deliberate and part of a strategy to silence independent reporting on Russian war crimes.
- Ukraine’s human rights commissioner said journalists are protected civilians under international humanitarian law, and media groups updated tolls citing 21 media workers killed by NUJU and these as the 14th and 15th reporters since 2022.