Alena Poddueva

Affiliated media: Newspaper Vesti Ternivka (vistiternivki.com.ua) , Editor

Incident date: October 25, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NSJU)

Location: Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ternivka

Additional information:

The acting deputy of the Ternivka municipality assaulted the editor of the newspaper Vesti Ternivka at the polling station. The deputy grabbed Poddueva's arm and tried to knock the phone out of her hands. The reason being that Poddueva documented five people with ‘freelance journalist’ IDs from the same media outlet at five poling stations.