Viktoriya Roshchyna

Affiliated media: hromadske.ua, Journalist

Incident date: March 9, 2022

Attack type:

• Attempted murder

Who attacked: от военных

Source: The Institute of Mass Information (IMI)

Location: Ukraine, Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast

Additional information:

The Russian military shelled and robbed the car in which hromadske.ua journalist Viktoriya Roshchyna was travelling. She said this on her Facebook page. According to Viktoriya, she and the driver ran into a column of Russian tanks in the Zaporizhzhya region. «Next came the rumble of tanks, a white letter Z, the flag of the Russian Federation. They came out from behind a turn and headed in our direction. Me and the driver, we reversed and tried to turn around. The Russians actively started shooting at us with bullets and then red-hot shells. Luckily, they flew past. I gave the command to stop, drop the vehicle, and lay down in the field. But the columns were coming towards us, and our salvation was an abandoned building, behind which we waited for the Russian equipment to pass», – she wrote. The journalist reported that the car, marked «PRESS», had been broken into and personal belongings were stolen.