Since the start of the full-scale invasion, at least 20 media workers have been injured by drone attacks. Three journalists were killed, one was seriously injured. The official data of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine was announced during the meeting of the Temporary Investigative Commission of the Verkhovna Rada on the investigation of Russian crimes against journalists.
Russia has changed the nature of attacks on journalists at the front. Unmanned aerial vehicles have become the main threat to people. At least 35 cases of legal pressure on journalists were also recorded: criminal proceedings, arrests in absentia, wanted notices, illegal sentences and imprisonment in the occupied territories.
Parliamentarians also listened to the testimony of public organizations and media representatives from the frontline and occupied territories. Each report contains information about pressure, persecution, or abduction of journalists in the temporarily occupied territories.
People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Kniazhytskyi emphasized that it is important to ensure proper documentation of all crimes against journalists, and the guilty should be punished.
“We must not just record crimes, but collect evidence so that the guilty are actually punished,” Kniazhytskyi concluded.
