KYIV, Ukraine — About 100 people gathered at a church in Kyiv on Monday to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed when a Russian drone struck their car in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

Both 43-year-old war correspondent Olena Hubanova, who worked under the pseudonym Alyona Gramova, and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin were killed on Thursday, Oct. 23, when a Russian Lancet drone hit their vehicle in Kramatorsk, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the front line.

It was the latest deadly attack on journalists covering the war in Ukraine . Earlier this month, a French photojournalist, Antoni Lallican, and a Ukrainian reporter, Grigoriy Ivanchenko, were wounded in a similar strike. Ivanchenko later had a leg amputated.

The trend underscores the expansion of the danger zone near the front

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