This Wednesday, a Russian journalist was killed in a bombardment on kyiv, announced the media “The Insider” for which she worked. Another civilian was killed and two people accompanying the journalist were injured. A total of five journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24.
A Russian journalist was killed Wednesday in a bombardment on kyiv, announced in the evening the online media for which she worked, The Insider. Oksana Baulina was killed by a rocket while she was filming the damage caused by a previous strike on a shopping center in the Podil district, in the northwest of the Ukrainian capital, according to a press release from her newspaper. Another civilian was killed and two people accompanying the journalist were injured.
“We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine”
before joining The InsiderMs. Baulina was a producer for an anti-corruption foundation in her country. The latter having been classified as an “extremist organisation” by the authorities, the journalist had to leave Russia and continued to work for The Insider on the subject of corruption.
She had gone to Ukraine as a correspondent, where she had made several subjects in kyiv and Lviv (west), still according to her media, which expressed her “deep condolences” to her family and friends.
“We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including Russian war crimes as well as the indiscriminate bombing of residential areas that causes the death of civilians and journalists,” adds The Insider, an independent online media founded in 2013 by journalist and activist Roman Dobrokhotov and now headquartered in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
A total of five journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24.