Hromadske journalist Viktoria Roshchyna is probably a prisoner of the russian invaders. The publication calls on the Ukrainian and international community to join efforts on the information field and by actions to contribute to the journalist’s release, as Hromadske reported.
According to the publication, Roshchyna has been filming videos and writing stories from hotspots in eastern and southern Ukraine every day of the russian-Ukrainian war. On March 11, the media posted an article in which she described the life of the temporarily occupied Enerhodar.
“These days, the journalist has been working on stories about military actions in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. She was going to travel all the way to Mariupol to talk about what was really going on in the city, which has been shelled by russian troops every day for more than two weeks. On the evening of March 11, Viktoria Roshchyna was probably on her way from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol and had poor connection, so we could hardly speak on the phone. All that was known was that she had already left Enerhodar at that time,” the newspaper reported.
On March 12, the editorial office was unable to contact Viktoria. Some eye-witnesses, whom the publication did not name for the sake of their safety, said that she was in the temporarily occupied Berdyansk at the time.
On March 16, Hromadske learned that the day before (probably on March 15) Viktoria Roshchyna was detained by the FSB.
“Currently, nothing is known about her whereabouts. Since last two days, we made every effort to release the journalist in a private manner. But it turned out to be ineffective,” the publication notes.
As reported by IMI, on March 8, Viktoria Roshchyna said that she came under russian fire in Zaporizhzhia. Her car, in which she was, was robbed.