Victoria Roshchyna

Viktoriya R oshchyna is a Ukrainian journalist and human rights activist, a prisoner of the Russian regime.

Biography

Victoria Roshchyna has been documenting war crimes of Russian occupants since the beginning of the Russian Federation's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as well as collecting facts about human rights violations in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Victoria has cooperated with Gromadske, Radio Liberty and its Ukrainian service, as well as the Ukrainian Pravda publication.

In 2022, Viktoriya Roshchina was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).

Russian captivity

Victoria Roshchina was first captured by Russian occupants on March 15, 2022 in occupied Berdyansk, when she was detained by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). At that time, the journalist was preparing a material about the war in the east and south of Ukraine. On March 21, 2022, the occupants released Victoria.

The second time she was captured by the enemy in August 2023. It is known that on July 27, 2023 she went to Poland, from where she intended to get to the occupied Ukrainian territories through the territory of the Russian Federation. On August 3, communication with the journalist disappeared. It was then that the last contact with her relatives was made, who filed a disappearance report with Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on August 12.

Subsequently, the case of Roschyna's disappearance was also registered with the SBU, the Ministry of Reintegration and the Ombudsman's Office.

On October 10, 2024, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech, MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, said that Viktoriya's father had received information from the Russian occupants that his daughter had died.

According to the Russian regime's information, Viktoriya Roshchina died while being escorted from Taganrog to Moscow. What exactly happened to the journalist is still unknown.

It should be noted that Yurchishin later deleted his message.