A Russian journalist working for the independent news site The Insider was killed in a shelling incident in Kyiv, the outlet said in a statement on Wednesday.
Oksana Baulina had been filming the shelling destruction in the capital's Podilskyi District by Russian troops when she came under rocket fire. Another civilian died with her, The Insider's statement said. Two people accompanying her were also wounded and hospitalized.Baulina went to Ukraine as a correspondent and filed"several reports" from Lviv and Kyiv, The Insider said.
"I don't even know how to speak about her death and can't even imagine all of this."Christo Grozev, an investigative reporter at Bellingcat, called her"an amazingly brave Russian journalist" who was"killed by her own country's army shelling civilian areas in the Podol district in Kyiv.""She was killed while reporting on the damage caused by the shelling," Grozev added on Twitter.
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