The family of journalist Roschyna, who died in captivity in the Russian Federation, received funds from the state – the head of the VR committee

Victoria Roschyna. photo from social networks

The family of journalist Victoria Roschyna, who died in Russian captivity, received a payment from the state.

Source: Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Speech, People’s Deputy of the “Voice” faction Yaroslav Yurchyshyn in Facebook

Direct speech: “No amount of payments will return Vika to his relatives. But this is the minimum that the state is obliged to do in order to show respect for its fallen journalists.”

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Details: According to the head of the specialized committee of the Verkhovna Rada, according to the confirmation from the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, it is about 302 thousand 800 hryvnias.

Yurchyshyn notes that for 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers has budgeted funds for payments to injured media workers. “And this is the case when I sincerely want these budget articles to remain intact,” the People’s Deputy added.

What preceded: Yurchyshyn reported problems with payment to Roschyna’s family. Later, he noted that it was still possible to find sources of funding.

Learn more: “Victoria” project. The story of captivity and torture experienced by journalist Roshchyna and thousands of Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia

Prehistory:

• In March 2022, Roschyna was captured by the Russian occupiers and held in Berdyansk for 10 days.
• In 2022, Roshchyna wrote a number of reports from the temporarily occupied territories for UP. In particular, about how the occupied Crimea lives during the war, as a pseudo-referendum was held in occupied Donetsk regionand showed a photo report from the destroyed Mariupol.
• In order to get to the occupied territory, Roschyna left Ukraine for Poland on July 25. She planned to go through Russia to the occupied east of Ukraine in 3 days.
• Roschyna disappeared on August 3, 2023 in the territory occupied by Russia, from where she was reporting.
• In May 2024, Russia admitted for the first time that it had detained Roshchina. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation sent a letter of confirmation to her father, Volodymyr Roschyn.
• Russia delayed the return of the journalist’s body: it was repatriated only in February 2025.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office reported that numerous traces of torture and ill-treatment were found on Roschyna’s body: wounds, hemorrhages, a broken rib, and signs of electric current.

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