According to the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Vadim Filashkin, the journalists were in a car at a gas station and were attacked by a «Lancet» drone. Gramova and Karmazin died on the spot, special correspondent Alexander Kolychev was taken to the hospital with injuries.
«From the first days of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, they covered the situation in the region, told the truth about enemy crimes, the evacuation of civilian population, and the stories of our defenders. They worked in the hottest spots of the Donetsk region, always being the first everywhere», — said in Filashkin's message.
The «Freedom» channel reported that Gramova «constantly worked in the hottest spots of the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions», both deceased journalists were natives of the Donetsk region. Gramova was 43 years old, Karmazin — 33 years old,
According to data from the Institute of Mass Information of Ukraine, since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, 114 Ukrainian journalists have died.