Media Initiative for Human Rights reported on October 11 that Viktoria Roshchyna was a Ukrainian journalist who died while in Russian captivity. She was held in Russian prisons where torture is used to punish the prisoners.
Roshchyna died on October 10, but Ukrainian officials said that the circumstances surrounding her death are still being investigated. The journalist vanished in August 2023, while reporting on territory occupied by Russia. Moscow acknowledged her detention in the following year.
In March 2022, Roshchyna had been detained by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), officers, for 10 days, while leaving Berdiansk to Mariupol. As a condition for her release, Roshchyna was forced to record video saying that Russian forces saved her life.
The Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR), a Ukrainian NGO that focuses on human rights advocacy, investigations and research, stated that Roshchyna had been held in at least 2 prisons: the penal colony No. 77 located in Berdiansk, in the occupied Ukraine, and the detention centre No. 2 in Taganrog, Russia.
Both detention facilities are notorious for torturing captives. The NGO confirmed that it was aware of cases where prisoners were electrocuted at the Berdiansk prison.
Former prisoners cited by the initiative described Taganrog as “one of the most brutal detention centres in Russia.” This is where many Azov Brigade fighters who were captured after the siege on Azovstal, are being held.
Tetiana Katrychenko said on Facebook that “Viktoria had been held in Taganrog in solitary confinement at least from May 2024 to September 2024.”
Roshchyna, a Russian woman, was taken from Taganrog in September to an unknown destination. According to Russia she died on September 19.
The NGO stated that it is currently unclear where she was transported, if she was transported as part of an exchange, or if her death was the result of abuse and torture by Russian captors.
Andrii Yusov is a spokesperson of Ukraine’s military intelligence service. He told the Suspilne news outlet that Roshchyna should be included in a forthcoming prisoner exchange.
The Ukrainian prosecutors who were investigating Roshchyna’s disappearance have now reclassified the case to a war crime.
Roshchyna covered the full-scale Russian invasion for several Ukrainian news outlets including Hromadske and Ukrainska Pravda (RFE/RL).
Sources told Reuters that the funding would come from the U.S.A., Japan and Canada. They added that it would be backed up by interest generated by frozen Russian assets.
Media Initiative for Human Rights reported on October 11 that Viktoria Roshchyna was a Ukrainian journalist who died while in Russian captivity. She was held in Russian prisons where torture is used to punish the prisoners.
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Maksym Kozoytskyi, the Lviv Oblast Governor, confirmed that the passenger bus, which carried the logo of popular transport company FlixBus was travelling from Warsaw to Odesa.
The General Staff has not provided any further details on how the helicopter was destroyed.
In a documentary broadcast on national television, Commander-in Chief Oleksandr Sryskyi stated that “we know about approximately 50,000 soldiers who were transferred from other sectors to the Kursk directions.”
Oleh Kiper, the Governor of Odesa, reported that Russia launched a missile attack on the district, which killed at least four people including a 16 year old girl.
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During his visit to Italy, President Volodymyr Zelensky presented the Ukrainian victory plan to Italian Premier Giorgia Mello.
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Bloomberg reported on October 10 that the premiums on war risk insurance for vessels traveling through Ukraine’s Black Sea shipping corridor have increased by approximately 33 per cent as a result of recent Russian attacks on foreign ships.
Local media reported that two large fires broke out at an oil terminal terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia, late at night, on October 10. They were at the site of another blaze, which had been burning for 4 days, at a previous Ukrainian drone attack.
The strike on Oct. 9, which left eight dead and 11 injured, hit a civilian vessel flying the Panamanian flag and damaged its cargo. This was the third Russian attack on a civilian vessel within four days.
Petro Yatsenko is a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Coordination HQ for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. He said that the circumstances of Viktoria Rosahchyna’s death are yet to be confirmed.
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