During the war, Russia committed 148 crimes against the media.
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has killed five journalists, wounded seven more, and left one missing. During the war, Russia committed 148 crimes against the media , and because of Russia's military aggression, 70 media outlets were suspended, the Institute of Mass Media reported.
It is noted that in Kiev and the suburbs of the capital were killed in the line of duty:
- Evgeny Sakun, cameraman of LIVE TV channel (died on March 1 during the Russian rocket attack on the TV tower in Kiev);
- Brent Reno, a former correspondent for The New York Times (shot dead by Russians on March 13 at a checkpoint in Irpen);
- Pierre Zakzewski, cameraman for Fox News, an Irish citizen (died on March 14 during artillery shelling by Russian troops in the village of Gorenka, Kiev region);
- Alexandra Kuvshinova, Ukrainian fixer, journalist (died on March 14 together with Pierre Zakzhevsky during the artillery shelling in the village of Gorenka, Kyiv region);
- Oksana Baulina, a journalist with Russia's The Insider, Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (died March 23 under Russian shelling in Kiev).
It is reported that three more journalists died as participants in hostilities or as a result of Russian shelling not while performing journalistic duties. Among them are Dilerbek Shakirov, a civilian journalist with the news weekly Around You, who was shot dead on February 26 in the suburbs of Kherson, Viktor Dudar, a military journalist who died on March 6 during fighting near Nikolaev, and Sigma TV cameraman Viktor Didov, who died on March 11 in Mariupol. at home.
The fate of photojournalist Maxim Levin is still unknown.
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