Posted on Mar 24, 2022
Ukraine war: Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Kyiv shelling
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A Russian journalist has been killed during shelling by Russian forces in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Oksana Baulina had been reporting from Kyiv and the western city of Lviv for investigative website The Insider, the outlet said in a statement.
She died while filming damage in the city's Podil district, it added.
Baulina previously worked for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, and had left Russia.
Last year the foundation was made illegal and branded extremist by the authorities, forcing many of its staff to flee abroad.
One other person was reportedly killed and two injured in the shelling.
Oksana Baulina had been reporting from Kyiv and the western city of Lviv for investigative website The Insider, the outlet said in a statement.
She died while filming damage in the city's Podil district, it added.
Baulina previously worked for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, and had left Russia.
Last year the foundation was made illegal and branded extremist by the authorities, forcing many of its staff to flee abroad.
One other person was reportedly killed and two injured in the shelling.
Ukraine war: Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Kyiv shelling
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..."Baulina went to Ukraine as a correspondent and filed "several reports" from Lviv and Kyiv, The Insider said.
"The Insider expresses its deepest condolences to Oksana's family and friends," the outlet said in the statement. "We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling of residential areas where civilians and journalists are killed."
The Insider's statement did not say when Baulina was killed. But soon after it was released, colleagues took to Twitter to mourn her death.
Baulina was a "journalist with a phenomenal sense of moral clarity," former colleague Alexey Kovalyov said in a Twitter post.
Prior to joining the outlet, Baulina worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to The Insider, which added that "after the organization was listed as an extremist organization, she had to leave Russia in order to continue reporting on Russian government corruption for The Insider."
Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh called Baulina a "courageous and honest, excellent journalist." "[S]he was our steadfast upstander and would always help," Yarmysh said. "I don't even know how to speak about her death and can't even imagine all of this."
Christo Grozev, an investigative reporter at Bellingcat, called her "an amazingly brave Russian journalist" who was "killed by her own country's army shelling civilian areas in the Podol district in Kyiv."
"She was killed while reporting on the damage caused by the shelling," Grozev added on Twitter.
Baulina is the fifth journalist killed in Ukraine this month, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom activists."...
..."Baulina went to Ukraine as a correspondent and filed "several reports" from Lviv and Kyiv, The Insider said.
"The Insider expresses its deepest condolences to Oksana's family and friends," the outlet said in the statement. "We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling of residential areas where civilians and journalists are killed."
The Insider's statement did not say when Baulina was killed. But soon after it was released, colleagues took to Twitter to mourn her death.
Baulina was a "journalist with a phenomenal sense of moral clarity," former colleague Alexey Kovalyov said in a Twitter post.
Prior to joining the outlet, Baulina worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to The Insider, which added that "after the organization was listed as an extremist organization, she had to leave Russia in order to continue reporting on Russian government corruption for The Insider."
Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh called Baulina a "courageous and honest, excellent journalist." "[S]he was our steadfast upstander and would always help," Yarmysh said. "I don't even know how to speak about her death and can't even imagine all of this."
Christo Grozev, an investigative reporter at Bellingcat, called her "an amazingly brave Russian journalist" who was "killed by her own country's army shelling civilian areas in the Podol district in Kyiv."
"She was killed while reporting on the damage caused by the shelling," Grozev added on Twitter.
Baulina is the fifth journalist killed in Ukraine this month, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom activists."...
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