The photo exhibition records Russian crimes against the media community during the full-scale war, starting on February 24, 2022
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ZMINA
< p>According to the data of the Institute of Mass Information, as of June 21, 2022, 33 dead Ukrainian and foreign journalists are known:
- 8 died while performing their professional duties;
- 25 – as participants in hostilities or as a result of Russian shelling or torture.
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At least 13 journalists were injured and 15 more went missing.
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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has already committed more than 300 crimes against journalists and the media in Ukraine.
The exhibition was organized by the Institute of Mass Information, Ukrainian PEN, ZMINA Human Rights Center, Lviv Media Forum, National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, George Gongadze Prize with the assistance of the Shevchenkivska District State Administration in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv City Center of Folk Art and Cultural Studies.
At the opening ceremony, media representatives presented their fallen colleagues or told their own stories of work in the war.
After July 6, the exhibition will move to Boyarka, the hometown of the murdered journalist and photojournalist Max Levin. : what is known Kharkiv Region suffers from Russian rocket and artillery strikes every day. Today, 5 fires broke out in the region due to shelling, 40 cases of property damage were recorded. The film “Day of the Ukrainian Volunteer” was honored at Sheffield Doc/Fest in Britain “I shot this film to capture the mundaneness of war, the surreality of the images that arise on the verge of the apocalypse,” says director Volodymyr Tykhiy. In Luhansk region, they barely have time to shelter the victims – Gaidai Scorched earth tactics: the Russians destroy the property of peaceful residents house by house. The occupiers are conducting defensive operations near Slovyansk, continue shelling in the direction of Kramatorsk – General Staff The Russians tried to storm Bogorodichne, but units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave them a decent rebuff. Teachers in the occupation are threatened with having their homes taken away if they refuse to cooperate with the enemy – The Guardian Moscow obliged Ukrainian teachers in the occupied territories to sign a document of readiness within several weeks to go to study according to the Russian school program.
