Russian journalist was killed in aggressors’ shelling in Kyiv
Alyona Mazurenko - Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 20:55
Oksana Baulina, a Russian journalist for ‘The Insider’, was killed in a missile attack in Kyiv.
Source: The Insider
Quote: "Oksana Baulina, a journalist for The Insider, died under fire in Kyiv while performing an editorial task. She was filming the destruction after Russian troops shelled the Podolsk district of the capital."
"Another civilian was also killed, and two more people who accompanied her were wounded and hospitalized."
Details: Baulina worked for the ‘Anti-Corruption Foundation’ before joining ‘The Insider.’
She was forced to leave Russia after the organisation was added to the extremist list.
She went to Ukraine as a correspondent, where she managed to make several reports from Lviv and Kyiv.
Quote: "We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling of residential areas which result in the deaths of civilians and journalists."
Background:
Russian aggressors have killed several journalists since the beginning of the war in Ukraine: video journalist Brent Reno was killed at a checkpoint near Irpin, journalist Viktor Dudar was killed in hostilities near Mykolayiv, and live cameraman Yevhen Sakun was killed in a missile attack in Kyiv.
Fox News photojournalist and cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski died in Ukraine, along with Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandra Kuvshynova.
In addition, the Russians captured several media representatives: Victoria Roshchyna, Hromadske journalist, and Kakhovka journalist Oleh Baturin. They have already been released from captivity. Oleh Baturin had been tortured for eight days. Roshchina was forced to record a complimentary video for Russian security forces.
