““Her courage will always be remembered and we must do our best to keep them responsibility for all war crimes and atrocities.””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Russia does not lose any opportunity to demonstrate its vile cruelty to Ukrainians, killing and torturing how it happened to Victoria Roshina – a brave Ukrainian journalist, who was not only brutally killed, but also tortured before it. It also clearly shows that life under the Russian occupation is not an option, it is not a safe option for Ukrainians, for journalists, ”said Anita Hipper, a spokeswoman for foreign policy and security policy.
“Her courage will always be remembered, and we have to do everything possible for them (Russia – ed.)
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On April 29, the International Project Viktoriia Project published an investigation into the death of Victoria Roshchina, which cooperated with many publications, including Radio Liberty.
According to him, the body, which, according to the examination, belongs to Roshina, has numerous traces of torture and traces of autopsy.
The investigative group, which conducted the investigation, confirmed the Victoria project that the body was brought to Ukraine with signs of autopsy, which was made in Russia. Also, the interlocutors in the agencies said that some internal organs were absent – it is the brain, eyeballs, as well as part of the trachea.
The international pathological expert, with whom journalists communicated, believes that the absence of these bodies may indicate that the Russians tried to hide that death came as a result of suffocation.
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For the first time, the Russians detained Roshchina in Berdyansk in March 2022, when she wrote reports for the media (including for Radio Liberty) about life in temporarily captured territories. Then the journalist was released, forcing him to record the video that she had no claims against the Russian military. Roshchina returned to Ukraine -controlled territory, but in July 2023 again went to the territory occupied by Moscow.
Victoria Roshchyna ceased to communicate with his relatives on August 3, 2023. According to her father, on July 27, Roshchyna left Ukraine to Poland and had to reach the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine (through Russia) in three days. Then Volodymyr Roshchin said that the Ukrainian Security Service confirmed the family that Victoria had been captured by Russian forces.
Victoria Roshchyna was the author of the reporting series for Radio Liberty, collaborated in 2022 with Radio Liberty as a freelancer. She also cooperated with Ukrainian Truth, Hromadske, Ukrainian Radio, UA: First and Censor.NET.