Welsh journalist to be honoured with slate memorial in Ukraine

Welsh journalist who exposed Ukrainian famine horror to be honoured in Kyiv

Gareth Jones, who risked his life to expose the Holodomor - a famine that killed millions in 1930s Ukraine - will be honoured in the country's capital Kyiv.

Welsh hero Gareth Jones to be honoured with memorial in Ukraine’s capital

A memorial plinth will make its home in Kyiv to honour of Gareth Jones, the Welsh journalist from Barry who risked his life to expose the Holodomor famine which killed millions in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Following a request for funding from the Senedd Cross Party Group Friends of Ukraine, the Welsh Government has agreed to offer a donation of £16,000 to support the commissioning of the plinth in Welsh, English and Ukrainian to mark a stree…

Welsh journalist to be honoured with slate memorial in Ukraine

The Plinth Group Welsh journalist Gareth Jones will be honoured with a memorial made of Welsh slate in the centre of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city. The 2m x 60cm memorial will be sited in the street named after him in 2020 by Kyiv City Council in recognition of his role as one of the first correspondents from the West to tell the world the truth about the famine in Ukraine, which killed an estimated 4 million Ukrainians between 1931 – 1932. The m…