Russian journalist Oksana Baulina dies in a bombing in Kyiv

Journalist Describes Attack That Killed Brent Renaud 2:05 (CNN) — A Russian journalist working for the independent news site The Insider was killed in a bombing in Kyiv, the outlet said in a statement on Wednesday. Oksana Baulina was filming the destruction of the shelling by Russian troops in the Podilskyi district of the capital, when she came under rocket fire. Another civilian died with her, according to The Insider’s statement. Two people who were with her were injured and hospitalized. Baulina traveled to Ukraine as a correspondent and did “several reports” from Lviv and Kyiv, according to The Insider. “The Insider expresses its deepest condolences to Oksana’s family and friends,” the outlet said in the statement. “We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including Russian war crimes such as the indiscriminate bombing of residential areas where civilians and journalists are killed.” The Insider statement does not say when Baulina died. However, shortly after her post, her colleagues mourned her death on Twitter. Gómez-Pablos: When you go to war as a journalist you put your life in check 0: 51Baulina was a “journalist with a phenomenal sense of moral clarity,” her former colleague Alexey Kovalyov said in a Twitter message. Before joining the media, Baulina worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to The Insider, who added that “after the organization was classified as an extremist organization, she had to leave Russia in order to continue reporting. on Russian government corruption for The Insider.” Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, called Baulina a “courageous and honest, excellent journalist.” “She was our staunch supporter and she was always helpful,” Yarmysh said. “I don’t even know how to talk about her death and I can’t even imagine all this.” Bellingcat investigative reporter Christo Grozev called her “an incredibly brave Russian journalist” who was “killed by her own country’s army shelling civilian areas in Kyiv’s Podol district.” “She was killed while she was reporting on the damage caused by shelling,” Grozev added on Twitter. Five journalists killed in Ukraine to date Baulina is the fifth journalist to die in Ukraine this month, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and other press freedom activists. Gulnoza Said, coordinator of the Committee’s Europe and Central Asia programme, said Baulina’s death is “another demonstration of the cruelty of Russia’s war against Ukraine.” Several news crews have been attacked while covering the war. Filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed outside Kyiv on March 13. Her colleague Juan Arredondo was seriously injured. Arredondo wrote on Instagram earlier this week that “with five surgeries, I have a long road to recovery.” The next day, two members of a Fox News crew, Oleksandra Kuvshynova and Pierre Zakrzewski, were killed. Correspondent Benjamin Hall was seriously injured. Earlier this month, a Ukrainian camera operator, Yevhenii Sakun, was killed when a television tower in Kyiv was bombed, according to CPJ. “Ukrainian and Russian authorities must do everything in their power to ensure the safety of journalists and all other civilians, and to fully investigate attacks against members of the press,” the group stated.