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The missing Ukrainian reporter, the Russian prison – and a vital lesson learned about journalism in a dangerous age | Laurent Richard

To do our job, investigative journalists are learning to work across borders. This isn’t just about the truth, it’s about staying alive

  • Laurent Richard is a journalist and the director of the Forbidden Stories consortium

In February 2025, the body of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was finally returned to Ukraine after months of uncertainty. She was one of 757 Ukrainian casualties handed over by Russian authorities as part of an exchange of prisoners and the dead.

Roshchyna had disappeared in the summer of 2023 while reporting from the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. When her body was examined, parts were missing: her eyeballs, her brain, her larynx – possibly removed to conceal the signs of how she died. Preliminary forensics suggest “numerous signs of torture”, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor.

Laurent Richard is a journalist and the director of the Forbidden Stories consortium

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Apr 29, 2026 Journalist safety Press freedom Media

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