Yurchyshyn: Government officials are looking for an opportunity to pay money to the family of Roschyna, who died in the Russian Federation

The photo was published by Yaroslav Yurchyshyn

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, head of the Committee on Freedom of Speech of the VRU, said that it is not yet known where the family of journalist Victoria Roschyna, who died in Russian captivity, will receive funds from the state, but government officials are working on it.

Source: People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Speech of the VRU, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn

Direct speech: “First of all, the money promised to the journalist’s parents is not in this year’s budget, nor in the project for 2026. It is about 302,800 hryvnias. The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has officially confirmed that funds under the program of the State TV and Radio Committee, which decided to pay the family of the deceased journalist, are not provided.

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Therefore, the Ministry of Finance suggests looking for money in another program of the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine. It is about a program for employees ofʼobjects critical infrastructure. But not all media have statuewith criticality”.

Details: However, the deputy adds that Victoria worked as a freelancer.

However, Yurchyshyn notes that government officials are reviewing approaches to budgeting and making changes to the distribution of the reserve fund.

straight language: “Then withʼappears possibility finance programs State TV and Radio Committee, that each one journalist, first by all soldier, or its relatives could get support from state, for which they daily take risks his own by life.

Because today, journalists are not only our eyes in the war zone. They collect the evidence base of crimes so that sooner or later the aggressor country will answer for what was committed on our land.”

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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