The occupiers brutally beat 78-year-old journalist Yevhen Bal, and the man died as a result of his injuries.
The National Union of Writers of Ukraine announced the tragic death of one of its members, a Ukrainian journalist, writer, volunteer and member of the National Union of Journalists, in its Telegram channel. A 78-year-old man was in Russian captivity.
On March 18, the Russian occupiers illegally arrested Yevgeny Bal and brutally tortured him for three days. The reason for the detention was “compromising photos with the Ukrainian military.” The man was literally abducted from his house in the village of Melekine near Mariupol and turned upside down in his house in search of evidence. A few days later, Yevhen Bal was released.
“In order not to harm and allow him to leave, the NSJU kept the persecution a secret and hoped to reveal the whole truth about the crime against the journalist after he left the temporarily occupied territory,” said NSJU First Secretary Lina Kushch.
However, the injuries were incompatible with life. Yevhen Bal passed away on April 2.
The union believes that the occupiers are purposefully persecuting Ukrainian journalists. The murder of 78-year-old Yevhen Bal is not the first case of a journalist's death during Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. In Irpen, on March 13, the Russian military shot New York Times journalists, one of them was killed.
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