Oksana Baulina: Russian journalist killed in shelling in Ukraine as editor condemns ‘war crime’
Reporter died alongside another civilian while filming in Kyiv for independent Russian news website The Insider
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Your support makes all the difference.A Russian journalist has been killed in shelling while filming damage to a shopping centre in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
Oksana Baulina died alongside another civilian on Wednesday while reporting on the destruction caused by an earlier attack in the city’s Podil district for independent Russian news website The Insider.
Two other people accompanying the reporter were also injured and hospitalised during the attack carried out by Russian forces.
Ms Baulina’s bosses at The Insider condemned her death as a “war crime”.
They said in a statement: “The Insider expresses its deepest condolences to Oksana’s family and friends.
“We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling of residential areas which result in the deaths of civilians and journalists.”
Ms Baulina previously worked for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation but had left Russia.
Last year the foundation was made illegal and branded extremist by the authorities, forcing many of its staff to flee abroad.
The journalist had managed to send several reports from the Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Kyiv before her death.
She is believed to be at least the fifth journalist to have died since Russia invaded Ukraine a month ago.
On 1 March, camera operator Yevhenii Sakun was killed during shelling of a TV transmission tower in Kyiv.
A fortnight later award-winning US filmmaker Brent Renaud, 50, was shot dead while filming in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv.
And just two days after that two Fox News journalists - cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Oleksandra Kuvshinova, 24 - were killed when their vehicle was struck by incoming fire on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Distressing footage earlier this month captured the moment two British journalists were shot at after they came under fire in a violent ambush in Ukraine.
Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent at Sky News, was hit by a bullet in the lower back as gunfire rained down on a car carrying his crew towards Kyiv on Monday.
Camera operator Richie Mockler was hit with two rounds to his body armour before the team managed to escape and take cover. They were later rescued by Ukrainian police.
It is thought that attack was carried out by a saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.
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