In Kiev, they say goodbye to journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in Russian captivity

On Friday, August 8, in Kiev, they say goodbye to Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in Russian captivity last year.

Source: UP

Details: A memorial service for a fallen journalist was held at the Michael’s Cathedral.

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After that, a farewell to Victoria on the Independence Square and the Baykovo Cemetery in Kiev will take place.

Farewell is organized by Victoria’s colleagues from several editions she cooperated with. The journalist family asks not to contact them for their comments during goodbye.

Victoria came to journalism at 16. Specialized in the topics of crime, human rights activity and the judicial system. With the beginning of a full -scale war, she made reports from hot spots and from the occupied territories. Some of her works were also published on the Ukrainian Truth.

Also read: In Memoriam: Journalist Victoria Roshchi, which was all but indifference

Know more: Victoria’s project. The history of captivity and torture that was survived by journalist Roshchina and thousands of Russian prisoners of Ukrainians

Prehistory:

• In March 2022, the Russian invaders were captured and kept in Berdyansk for 10 days.
• In 2022, Roshchina wrote a number of reports from temporarily occupied territories for the UP. In particular, about that What lives occupied Crimea in war lives, As a pseudo -referendum passed in the occupied Donetsk regionand showed Photo report from the destroyed Mariupol.
• In order to get into the occupied territory, Roschina left Ukraine to Poland on July 25. She planned to reach the occupied East of Ukraine through Russia in 3 days.
• Roshchyna disappeared on August 3, 2023 in the territory occupied by Russia, where she made a report.
• In May 2024, Russia for the first time acknowledged that she had detained Roshchina. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation sent a letter confirming her father, Vladimir Rochina.
• On August 2, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Victoria Roshchyna by the Order of Freedom.