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Viktoria Roshchyna is a contributor to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. She specializes in reporting on crime, human rights, and the judiciary.

Torture, Death of a Ukrainian Journalist in Russian Custody

Click to expand Image A commemoration Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna who died in Russian captivity, Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 11, 2024. © 2024 Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist, disappeared in the Russia-occupied part of the Zaporizka region of Ukraine in August 2023. A year later, she called her family fr…

The body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriya Roshchyna arrived home in a plastic bag marked "unidentified man."

Espreso will tell about the life and death of Victoria Roshchyna based on the investigations of a group of journalists from iStories, Ukrainska Pravda, Info Investigations and many other media together with the organization “Reporters Without Borders” and the Forbidden Stories journalistic project. Victoria's example is not only about the story of one journalist who gave her life for the truth and her principles, but also about thousands of Ukra…