Viktoriia Roshchyna: Ukrainian journalist who chronicled Russian occupation dies in prison

Viktoriia Roshchyna had been detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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It took nine months for Russian authorities to confirm the journalist had been detained. They gave no reason.

This week, her father got a terse letter from the defence ministry in Moscow informing him that Victoria was dead, aged 27.

The document said the journalist’s body would be returned in one of the swaps organised by Russia and Ukraine for soldiers killed on the battlefield. The death date was given as 19 September.

Again, there was no explanation.

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