Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who was part of opposition media The Insider, was killed in a bombing of a shopping center in Kiev while she was working, the publication itself reported on Wednesday.
Baulina was filming the destruction caused by the Russian bombings at that mall in the Kiev district of Podolsk. Another civilian also died and two people accompanying the journalist were injured and are hospitalized.
“We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including Russian war crimes as well as blind bombings of residential areas that result in the death of civilians and journalists,” warned the independent digital media, created in 2013 by journalist and activist Roman Dobrokhotov.
The Insider is one of the Russian media outlets declared as a “foreign agent” for receiving foreign funding, and before joining the media, Oksana Baulina worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Fund of the leading Russian opponent, Alexey Navalny, currently imprisoned. When this organization was declared an extremist, Oksana left Russia to continue working for The Insider on Russian corruption.
He had been in Ukraine for some time, from where he sent various information from Kiev and Lviv (Lviv).
With it, there are already seven journalists killed in this invasion of Ukraine. Earlier, Dilerbek Shukurovich Shakirov (killed on the third day of the war in the city of Kherson), camera Yevgeny Sakun (in Kiev) Viktor Dudar (Mikolaiv), American Brent Renaud (Irpin), Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kurshynova, the latter two employees of Fox News, died in Horenka, on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, according to the NGO Press Emblem Campaign (PEC).
On the other hand, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, promised on Wednesday to “defend every building” in the city and declared that Ukrainian forces have forced Russian troops to retreat on several fronts around Kiev.
According to Klitschko, fierce fighting is taking place in the north and east of the Ukrainian capital, while “the small town of Makariv and almost all of Irpin are already under the control of Ukrainian soldiers”. Irpin is located to the east of Kiev and Makariv 50 kilometers west of the capital.
AFP reporters reported heavy artillery fighting in Irpin and Liutizh, north of Kiev.
With information from AFP, AP and EFE
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