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A Russian journalist was killed by shelling while on assignment in Kyiv

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Russian journalist Oksana Baulina was killed by a rocket strike while on assignment in Kyiv, according to her employer , the independent news website The Insider .

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina was killed by a rocket strike while on assignment in Kyiv, according to her employer, the independent news website The Insider. The site said she „died under fire“ while „filming the destruction after Russian troops shelled the Podil district of the capital.“ Another civilian was killed in the attack, it added, and two people who were with Baulina were hospitalized with injuries. Baulina previously worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Russian non-profit established more than a decade ago by vocal Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. After the Russian government designated it an extremist organization in June 2021, Baulina had to leave the country in order to continue reporting on government corruption for The Insider, which is headquartered in Latvia. „Oksana went to Ukraine as a correspondent, she managed to send several reports from Lviv and Kyiv,“ the publication added.

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