Galina Tereshchuk

Affiliated media: Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) , Journalist

Incident date: January 30, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

Location: Ukraine, Lviv Oblast, Lviv

Additional information:

The car of the Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) correspondent Galina Tereshchuk was set on fire in Lviv. The incident took place on the night of January 30. The video fragments showed that a masked man approached the car. People shouted at him that he wanted to set on fire the street, but he said he wanted to set on fire a specific car. The police later found the culprit, he turned out to be a student. The investigation also insists that it has identified both the perpetrator and the instigator of the crime.