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Russia fails to return body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna in prisoner swap

Ukraine has reclassified the case of missing journalist Viktoria Roshchyna as a war crime investigation following reports of her death in Russian captivity.

byMaria Tril

Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna. Credit: UkrInform

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Ukraine pushes for accountability after journalist Viktoria Roshchyna’s death in Russian captivity

Ukrainian authorities are working to return the body of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity.

byOlena Mukhina

Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian freelance journalist and 2022 Courage in Journalism Award winner

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EU condemns death of Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna in Russian captivity

EU officials have called for swift justice after the confirmed death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriya Roshchyna, who was illegally detained by Russia. Her death, reported during a transfer between Russian detention centers, is being investigated as a war crime by the Security Service of Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna confirmed dead in Russian captivity

Roshchyna, a journalist working with RFE/RL, went missing in August 2023 while traveling to occupied territories and was slated for a prisoner exchange.

byYuri Zoria

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4 Reuters journalists injured in Russian attack on Kramatorsk

Four Reuters journalists from Ukraine, the United States, Latvia, and Germany injured in a Russian missile attack on a hotel in Kramatorsk, one from Britain may still be trapped under the rubble.

byMaria Tril

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Fox News sued by parents of Ukrainian journalist killed near Kyiv in 2022

A lawsuit accuses Fox News of misrepresenting details around the 2022 death of a Ukrainian journalist reporting on the war, allegedly to deceive her family.

byMaria Tril

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

In the blood: fallen Ukrainian sniper is third generation to oppose Russia

Decades after the KGB dragged his defiant father away just days before his planned marriage, dissident descendant Roman Chornomaz dies fighting Russian forces near Bakhmut.

byChristine Chraibi

Latest news Ukraine

International Federation of Journalists suspends Russian union

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today suspended the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) from membership following a…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Russian Aggression

Maks Levin, photographer of Russian war against Ukraine since 2014, killed by Russian troops near Kyiv

On 1 April, after a lengthy search, police found the body of the Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker…

byOrysia Hrudka

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“Hell. Despair. The feeling of absurdity.” Ukrainian journalist jailed in occupied Crimea describes FSB torture in harrowing letters

Who is Vladyslav Yesypenko? Vladyslav Yesypenko comes from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. A year before…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Ukraine

Chain of attacks on Ukrainian whistleblowers continues: RFE/RL car set on fire

The Schemes (Skhemy) program is broadcast on UA:Pershyi, a Ukrainian national television channel. The program has been screened…

byOlena Makarenko

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War in Donbas

The story of Aliona, journalist in the war zone: #Being20

Coming to the cities and villages at the frontline Aliona pays special attention to people’s moods: “The closer…

byWorld Media

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Was the faked “murder” of Russian journalist Babchenko really necessary?

In the evening of 29 May, Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was reportedly shot dead in his back on…

byYuri Zoria

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Over 200 journalists from 16 countries demand to release kidnapped Azerbaijani colleague

Over 200 journalists from 16 countries demand to free the Azerbaijani investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli of Meydan TV, who was…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Investigative documentary on journalist’s murder finds leads that cops didn’t, traces to SBU

When Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet was murdered in Kyiv on 20 July 2016, President Petro Poroshenko said that…

byAlya Shandra

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Meet Mykola Semena, the Crimean journalist prosecuted for disagreeing with Putin’s landgrab

Russia’s attack against those opposing the illegal annexation of Crimea is not surprising—after all, Moscow is experienced in…

byIhor Vynokurov

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Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko celebrates birthday in Putin’s prison

What happens if your son, father, or spouse is arrested by the state that is waging a war…

byIhor Vynokurov

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Reaction of international community can save Ukrainian journalist Sushchenko

Ukrainian human rights organizations Human Rights Center and the Center for Civil Liberties believe that the arrest of…

byAlya Shandra

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Another death of a Russian opposition journalist: Alexander Shchetinin remembered by Kirillova

Ukrainian authorities have launched a murder investigation into the death of a prominent Russian journalist found shot to death at…

byPaula Chertok

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“DNR’s” propaganda apparatus exposed. Part 2: How “DNR” censored Ukraine’s leading TV channels

An email dump of a “DNR Ministry of information” employee, Tatyana Egorova, reveals that Ukrainian leading TV channels collaborated with the…

byOlena Makarenko