A Ukrainian journalist stood up to Putin and paid with her life. This is her story
October 15, 2024
A Ukrainian journalist stood up to Putin and paid with her life. This is her story
by theipaper
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Journalists around the world have been paying tribute to Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian reporter who has died aged 27 while in Russian custody.
Roshchyna disappeared in Russian-occupied Ukraine in August 2023. Vladimir Putin’s forces only confirmed nine months later that they had detained her, without explaining why. Last week, her father was informed by letter from Moscow’s defence ministry that she had died, without being offered any explanation.
This was not Roshchyna’s first experience of being held captive by the Russian forces – which makes her determination to continue reporting seem even braver.
She had previously been captured in March 2022 while trying to reach the besieged city of Mariupol. In the article i is republishing below – originally written for the Ukrainian news outlet Hromadske, and translated into English for the group Index on Censorship which campaigns for media freedom around the world – Roshchyna described that traumatic ordeal.
Putin is such a pussy. When you’re afraid of the press, like Trump or Putin, you’re a fucking joke.
Quote:
“When I asked when they would let me go, they answered, “When Kyiv is taken”.
This is basically the Special Military Fascist operation of the Nazi at the Kremlin during 2022… i am glad Ukraine is much stronger now than before and will be much stronger each year. Italy 🇮🇹
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Journalists around the world have been paying tribute to Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian reporter who has died aged 27 while in Russian custody.
Roshchyna disappeared in Russian-occupied Ukraine in August 2023. Vladimir Putin’s forces only confirmed nine months later that they had detained her, without explaining why. Last week, her father was informed by letter from Moscow’s defence ministry that she had died, without being offered any explanation.
This was not Roshchyna’s first experience of being held captive by the Russian forces – which makes her determination to continue reporting seem even braver.
She had previously been captured in March 2022 while trying to reach the besieged city of Mariupol. In the article i is republishing below – originally written for the Ukrainian news outlet Hromadske, and translated into English for the group Index on Censorship which campaigns for media freedom around the world – Roshchyna described that traumatic ordeal.
**Read the full article here:** [https://inews.co.uk/news/media/ukraine-journalist-died-vladimir-putin-story-3322948](https://inews.co.uk/news/media/ukraine-journalist-died-vladimir-putin-story-3322948)
Putin is such a pussy. When you’re afraid of the press, like Trump or Putin, you’re a fucking joke.
Quote:
“When I asked when they would let me go, they answered, “When Kyiv is taken”.
This is basically the Special Military Fascist operation of the Nazi at the Kremlin during 2022… i am glad Ukraine is much stronger now than before and will be much stronger each year. Italy 🇮🇹
I don’t get one thing, why she refused to eat? 🤔
Fuck Putin.