Bessarabia.ua - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Bessarabia.ua, Online media (Ukraine)

Incident date: April 19, 2022

Attack type:

Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the demand of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor has blocked for covering the war in Ukraine the Ukrainian media Bessarabia.ua, which covers events in the south of the Odessa region and Ukraine as a whole.

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