Violetta Tovkes

Affiliated media: TV channel NewsOne, Journalist

Incident date: November 28, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

An unknown person attacked a NewsOne journalist on air at a ceremony of commemoration of the victims of Holodomors, which took place in Kyiv on Saturday, November 28. The masked man approached the journalist knocked the microphone and a candle out of her hands, and also started to push the young woman. Police initiated the criminal case on the basis of impediment to journalistic activity.