US EditionMoscow Returns Body of Ukrainian Reporter Who Died in Russian Detention
- Ukrainian authorities received the body of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in late February 2025.
- She vanished in August 2023 reporting in occupied Ukraine and Russia confirmed her arrest by April 2024.
- Russia's defense ministry told her father in October 2024 that she died in their custody.
- Ukrainian Deputy Minister Tymchenko stated remains were identified using DNA testing.
- Officials are investigating her death's circumstances, noting signs of torture on the body.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Myeong-hun = In February, Russia repatriated 757 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers. The last 757th body among those repatriated was...
She wanted to report on Putin's torture prisons, and she herself became a victim: Viktorija Roschchyna.
Russia returns captured Ukrainian journalist's mutilated body, keeps her brain and eyes
Viktoria Roshchyna made the fatal error of digging into Russia's disappearing-people-industrial-complex inside occupied Ukraine. As reported in the Washington Post, the 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist had been investigating Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives running detention facilities, documenting war crimes, and — most dangerously — naming names of officials involved in child abductions. — Read the rest The post Russia returns capture…
From Melitopol’s “garage” to Taganrog prison, the communicator documented the Kremlin’s illegal detention centers. She disappeared in August 2023 and her body was found five months later with severe signs of torture.
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She was considered dead-hearted and stubborn: Viktoriia Roshchyna researched torture prisons in the occupied Ukrainian territories. There she died. Now the family tries to find out what the reporter had to suffer.
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