Oksana Baulina was killed by a rocket while she was filming the damage caused by a previous strike on a shopping center in the Podil district, in the northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
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A Russian journalist, Oksana Baulina, was killed Wednesday March 23 in a bombardment on kyiv, announced the independent online media for which she worked, The Insider, an independent online media founded in 2013 by journalist and activist Roman Dobrokhotov, headquartered in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
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She died following a rocket attack while she was filming the damage caused by a previous strike on a shopping center in the district of Podil, in the northwest of the Ukrainian capital, according to a press release from his newspaper. Another civilian was killed and two people accompanying the journalist were injured.
Oksana Baulina, a journalist for The Insider, died under fire in Kyiv after a rocket strike on a shopping center in Podol https://t.co/Su1TxIibGr
— The Insider (@InsiderEng) March 23, 2022
before joining The Insider, Oksana Baulina was a producer for an anti-corruption foundation in her country. This has been classified as “extremist organization” by the authorities, the journalist had to leave Russia and continued to work for The Insider on the subject of corruption.
She had gone to Ukraine as a correspondent, where she had made several subjects in kyiv and Lviv, still according to her media, which expressed her “deep condolences” to his family and friends. “We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including Russian war crimes as well as the indiscriminate bombing of residential areas which results in the death of civilians and journalists”, added the media. A total of five journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24.