Military photographer, filmmaker and Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Ruslan "Ostap" Hanushchak has been killed on the front line.

Source: Natalia Kotskovych, press secretary of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Territorial Recruitment Centre (TRC); Detector Media

Details: Hanushchak began his career as a military filmmaker in 2014 while serving in the Azov Battalion. He became one of the documentarians of the war in Donbas, capturing Russian war crimes in the settlements of Shyrokyne, Hranitne, Berdianske, Lebedynske and Marinka.

His works, including the film about Georgian volunteers Brother for Brother, were showcased in the US, UK and other countries worldwide.

In 2016, Hanushchak created the documentary Two Days in Ilovaisk, detailing the beginnings of the Ilovaisk tragedy.

In 2022, he joined the 92nd Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, continuing to publish photographs and videos documenting the war.

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