Captain Ruslan Faraonov, who was documenting the consequences of an earlier strike, died as a result of Russian shelling of Seredyna-Buda, Sumy region.
The Russian army on Thursday launched 23 attacks on border villages in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, damaging residential buildings, shops, a gas pipeline and a power line.
The Candlemas Temple run by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate) sustained damage in the Russian missile attack on Sumy.