Companion.ua - Justice for Journalists

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

Incident date: May 14, 2022

Attack type:

request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the demand of the General Prosecutor’s Office, Roskomnadzor has blocked two publications on the website of the Ukrainian online media Companion.ua. One of them was about Russian servicemen bullying «mobilised people» in the «Donetsk People’s Republic», while the other was about the Russian army’s losses in Ukraine.

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