Yan Dobronosov

Affiliated media: Telegraf , Photo journalist

Incident date: March 30, 2023

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

On March 29, worshippers at the state-run Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv threatened and obstructed a group of journalists who had arrived there to cover the government’s termination of the monastery’s lease to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The believers surrounded the reporter of the private TV channel Pryamiy Andriy Solomka and his fellow cameraman Anton Puzan shortly after their arrival. Several people pushed the journalists and prevented them from doing their work. On March 30, people in religious clothes threatened to beat up the photo journalist of the news website Telegraf Yan Dobronosov. Dobronosov said that when he tried to ask a question to a man who looked like the leader of the group, the members of the group threatened him and the man pulled the charging wire of his phone, disconnecting it from the power bank.