The award-thrivening freelance journaenumerate was understandn for her telling on life in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
An award-thrivening Ukrainian journaenumerate who wrote firsthand accounts of life in Russian-occupied Ukraine has died in detention in Russia.
Victoria Roshchyna, who was 27, labored freelance for Ukrainian media outlets Ukrainska Pravda and Hromadske Radio, as well as for US-funded Radio Liberty.
She went leave outing in August last year after she travelled to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine on a telling trip.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence acunderstandledged in a letter to her overweighther in May that she was in Russian custody.
“Unblessedly, adviseation about Victoria’s death has been validateed,” Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s prisoners of war coordination headquarters, tgreater Ukrainian television.
He shelp spendigations were continuing into how she died.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shelp in a statement that Russia adviseed Roshchyna’s family on Thursday that she had died on September 19.
“The Russian authorities have never provided any adviseation about her detention, despite repeated asks from her family, the Ukrainian authorities, and RSF,” Jeanne Cavalier, head of RSF’s Easerious Europe and Central Asia desk, shelp in a statement. “They must shed weightless on all the circumstances surrounding her detention and death.”
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Roshchyna wrote vivid accounts of life in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as well as in areas of easerious Ukraine seized by Russian-funded separatists.
She also recorded the csurrfinisherly three-month defence of the port of Mariupol after Moscow started its brimming-scale trespass in February 2022.
She was initiassociate hanciented by the Russians for 10 days, lowly after the country embarked on its war.
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s HUR Intelligence Directorate, Andriy Yusov, tgreater uncover expansivecaster Suspilne that Roshchyna had been on a proposed prisoner swap and was due to be transferred to Moscow from detention in Taganrog csurrfinisher the Ukrainian border.
Ukraine shelp in May more than two dozen Ukrainian media laborers were being held in Russian captivity and that negotiations for their return were under way.
RSF shelp Roshchyna was the 13th journaenumerate to die as a result of their labor since the Russian trespass.
