Oleksandr Kolychev, special correspondent with the Ukrainian international broadcasting channel Freedom TV, who was wounded in a Russian drone strike at the Freedom TV camera crew in Kramatorsk on 23 October, is in serious condition, Dim TV reports. Kolychev is in the Illya Mechnykov Oblast Hospital in Dnipro.
Oleksandr Kolychev has suffered an explosive injury, multiple shrapnel wounds to the head and body, an open bone fracture, and burns. The media outlet notes that the journalist has survived a coma and a complex surgery. His condition is currently stable and serious.
Oleksandr Kolychev has a mother, wife, and two daughters. The eldest daughter is 27, the youngest is nine. Oleksandr’s wife is expecting.
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As reported earlier, war reporter Alyona Hramova (Hubanova) and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin of the Ukrainian international channel Freedom TV were killed in a Russian Lancet drone strike in Kramatorsk (Donetsk oblast) on 23 October 2025. The journalists were filming the aftermath of an earlier Russian strike at a gas station. Special correspondent Oleksandr Kolychev was wounded in the strike. The police is investigating the murder and wounding of Freedom TV crew as a war crime.
The funeral for Alyona Hramova (Hubanova) and Yevhen Karmazin took place at the St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv on 27 October.
