Ukrainian journalist missing in Russian-occupied territory.

 Zechariah Wease: 

Victoria Roshchyna is a freelance journalist for Ukraine. She went onto a trip in Russian territory two months ago. Her family and colleagues report that she was last heard from August 3rd. They are scared that she could potentially be held captive by the Russians.

Roshchyna told her family on Aug. 3 that she had made it through border checks but did not say where she was, according to the Daily Beast report. She had departed from Ukraine on July 27 bound for Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, traveling through Poland and Russia to get to the contested region, Nemtsova reported, citing Vladimir Roshchyn, Roshchyna’s father.

Roshchyna was held captive by Russia in March 2022, after she was captured by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. She was held for 10 days in Berdyansk, and later chronicled her time in captivity in a report for the Ukrainian news outlet Hromadske.

Her father told Nemtsova that he had told Roshchyna to avoid going to the front lines of the war following her kidnapping in 2022. He offered to pay her not to go, but she insisted on continuing to report from the most treacherous battlegrounds, where atrocities often go unseen because of the extreme danger to journalists and human rights advocates.

Ukrainian journalist missing in Russian-occupied territory (msn.com)