War in Ukraine: a Russian journalist, specializing in the fight against corruption, killed in a bombing

the essential Oksana Baulina had worked in Russia in the fight against corruption in her country, which was why she had to flee it. She was covering the war in Ukraine for an independent media, and was killed while filming the aftermath of a previous bombardment. A Russian journalist was killed on Wednesday March 23 in a bombardment in kyiv, the independent online media for which she worked, The Insider, announced in the evening. Oksana Baulina was killed by a rocket while she was filming the damage caused by a previous strike on a shopping center in the Podil district, in the northwest of the Ukrainian capital, according to a press release from her newspaper. Another civilian was killed and two people accompanying the journalist were injured. Oksana, an amazingly brave Russian journalist, was the Ukraine reporter for our investigative partner @the_ins_ru. She 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. https://t.co/Wnho96Lb1M — Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 23, 2022 Before joining The Insider, Ms Baulina was a producer for an anti-corruption foundation in her country. The latter having been classified as an “extremist organization” by the authorities, the journalist had to leave Russia and continued to work for The Insider on the theme of corruption. “We will continue” She had gone to Ukraine as a correspondent, where she had made several subjects in kyiv and Lviv (west), always according to her media, which expressed her “deep condolences” to her family and friends. “We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including Russian war crimes as well as indiscriminate bombings of residential areas that are killing civilians and journalists,” adds The Insider, an independent online media outlet founded in 2013 by journalist and activist Roman Dobrokhotov and which is now based in Riga, the capital of Latvia. A total of five journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24.