Victoria Roshchyna was last heard from on Aug. 3, according to the IWMF, which said in a statement that it was “extremely concerned for her safety.”
An undated portrait of Victoria Roshchyna. Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian freelance journalist, has been missing since she went on a reporting trip to Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine two months ago, raising concerns among family, colleagues and advocates that Russia could be holding her captive.Roshchyna was last heard from on Aug. 3, according to the International Women’s Media Foundation, which said in a statement that it was “extremely concerned for her safety.
Elisa Lees Muñoz, the IWMF’s executive director, said in a phone interview that Roshchyna’s colleagues, other journalists covering the war, have expressed growing concern about the disappearance.“That they went public with this is really indicative of their desperation,” she said, as drawing attention to such a case can sometimes be “considered a provocation” by the missing person’s captors.
“I think it’s time to raise hell and publish,” Nemtsova told Lees Muñoz. “At least if she’s in the basement, they’ll stop torturing her.” Roshchyna told her family on Aug. 3 that she had made it through border checks but did not say where she was, according to the Daily Beast report. She had departed from Ukraine on July 27 bound for Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, transiting through Poland and Russia to get to the contested region, Nemtsova reported, citing Vladimir Roshchyn, Roshchyna’s father.Roshchyn told Nemtsova that Ukrainian security services had informed him that his daughter had been captured by Russia.
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