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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stas Kozliuk, Poline Tchoubar, Guillaume Vénétitay and Juliette Garside

‘She was very, very thin’: witness tells of Ukrainian journalist’s final days in Russian prison

Two hands hold up a black and white photograph of a woman
People hold portraits of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna during a commemoration in Kyiv. Photograph: Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

Details of the last days in captivity of the Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died last year, have emerged with the witness account of a soldier who was with her when she was transported to a prison deep inside Russia.

Roshchyna was seized while reporting from behind enemy lines in occupied Ukraine in the summer of 2022, one of an estimated 16,000 civilians detained by Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

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