The reporter, who worked for the online independent media “The Insider”, was killed by a rocket while she was filming the damage caused by a previous strike on a mall of the Ukrainian capital.
Le Monde with AFP
While she was filming the damage caused by a previous strike on a shopping center of the Podil arrondissement, in the northwestern Ukrainian capital, Oksana Baulina, a Russian journalist, was killed Wednesday by a rocket, announced in the evening the independent media online for which she worked, The Insider. Another civilian was killed and two people who accompanied the journalist were injured, according to a statement of his journal.
Before joining The Insider, M Me Baulina was producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation in his country. It has been classified as “extremist organization” by the authorities, the journalist had to leave Russia and continued to work for The Insider on the theme of corruption. She had went to Ukraine as correspondent, where she had made several subjects in kyiv and Lviv, always according to her media, who expressed his “deep condolences” to his family and friends.
“We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine”
“We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including Russian war crimes, as well as blind bombings on housing areas that cause the death of civilians and journalists,” adds the insider, a media Online independent founded in 2013 by the journalist and activist Roman Dobrokhotov and who now has his seat in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
By counting Oksana Baulina, six journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian offensive, February 24. The 1 er March, Evgueni Sakoun, Cameraman of the local chain Kyiv Live TV, is killed in the bombing of the Tower Tower of the Ukrainian capital. A few days later, the France-Press agency relays the death of the Ukrainian journalist Viktor Doudar during fights near Mykolav. On March 13, while circulating in a civilian vehicle, the American documententarist Brent Renaud, who had collaborated several times in the past with the New York Times, is targeted by irpine shots and dies on the spot. The next day, the Franco-Irish Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian Olexandra Kuvshynova, who worked for the American Chain Fox News, were also killed.