““For civic courage, patriotism, selfless upholding of the sovereignty and independence of the Ukrainian state, constitutional rights and freedoms of man decide: to reward the Order of Freedom of Roschina Victoria Vladimirovna””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“For civic courage, patriotism, selfless upholding of the sovereignty and independence of the Ukrainian state, the constitutional rights and freedoms of man decide: to award the Order of Freedom of Roschina Victoria Vladimirovna – a human rights activist, a tender, a military correspondent (posthumously).
The decree was signed on August 1.
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.
In October 2024, it became known that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who disappeared during a trip to the occupied territories and kept in Russia, died in Russian captivity.
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.