KYIV: Two Ukrainian journalists were killed by a Russian drone in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Thursday in an attack that was condemned by President Volodymyr Zelensky and described by Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman as a war crime.
Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin identified the journalists as Olena Hubanova and Yevhen Karmazin from Ukraine’s state-funded Freedom television channel.
The channel, which broadcasts in Russian, confirmed their deaths and said they were in a car at a petrol station at the time of the strike.
Russia continues to attack, kill, and injure journalists who are covering its war against Ukraine.
Today in Kramatorsk, a Russian drone directly struck a car with Ukrainian “Freedom” TV reporters, killing journalist Olena Hubanova and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin, and severely… pic.twitter.com/l7FRMrfwUy
