Ukrainian journalist died in Russian captivity, Kyiv says – POLITICO

Ukrainian journalist died in Russian captivity, Kyiv says – POLITICO

“Her return was agreed, and the last information we know, she was being transferred to Lefortovo prison[in Moscow] to prepare for her return home,” Petro Yatsenko, representative of Ukraine’s prisoner exchange coordination staff, said on a Ukrainian national fundraising telethon late on Thursday. Roshchyna, 27, went missing in August 2023 in the Russian-occupied territories of…

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Kyiv says Ukrainian reporter Victoria Roshchyna died in Russian detention | Russia-Ukraine war News

Kyiv says Ukrainian reporter Victoria Roshchyna died in Russian detention | Russia-Ukraine war News

The award-winning freelance journalist was known for her reporting on life in Russian-occupied Ukraine. An award-winning Ukrainian journalist who wrote firsthand accounts of life in Russian-occupied Ukraine has died in detention in Russia. Victoria Roshchyna, who was 27, worked freelance for Ukrainian media outlets Ukrainska Pravda and Hromadske Radio, as well as for US-funded Radio…

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Biden, Like Trump, Blames Obama for LosingCrime

Biden, Like Trump, Blames Obama for Losing Crimea to Putin, Book Reveals

President Joe Biden previously said that he holds the Obama administration accountable for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, which culminated in Moscow seizing control of the Crimean Peninsula. According to Watergate journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, War, Biden expressed discontent during a private conversation late last year over how his former running mate handled…

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