growing reach of drones<\/a> \u2014 now extending more than 20 kilometers from the front line \u2014 has made reporting increasingly perilous.<\/p>\nThe two journalists, who often worked together, were honored side by side during a funeral service at St. Michael\u2019s Golden-Domed Monastery, where their coffins were covered with fresh roses.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefending the truth is one of the highest forms of love for one\u2019s neighbor,” the priest, Viktor Zhyvchyk, said during the service. “In their effort to show the truth to the world, these journalists gave their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the first days of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, they covered events in the Donetsk region, telling the truth about enemy crimes, evacuations of civilians and the stories of our defenders,\u201d regional governor Vadym Filashkin wrote on Telegram. \u201cThey were always among the first to arrive in the hottest spots.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement, the FreeDom channel said Hubanova worked constantly in the most dangerous areas of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, \u201ctelling the world the truth about how Russian forces are destroying her native Donetsk region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colleague Olha Mykhaliuk, who also works for FreeDom, brought blue and yellow flowers to the funeral.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttacks on journalists have become more frequent. The enemy sees it as a kind of victory,\u201d Mykhaliuk said, noting that reporting from front-line areas is dangerous but essential.<\/p>\n
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, at least 135 media workers have been killed, according to Ukraine\u2019s National Union of Journalists.<\/p>\n
Hubanova was born in Yenakiieve, a city that has been under Russian occupation since 2014.<\/p>\n
Karmazin, 33, was a native of Kramatorsk. He is survived by his wife and son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine — Mourners gathered at a church in Kyiv on Monday to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[172160,3907,2000,299,4179,82846,7661,657,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-531255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-172160","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-military-occupations","14":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115446609605763849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}