Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost
Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life

 

 

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was pronounced dead in Russian captivity in October 2024, after being secretly held for months in Russian-occupied Ukraine and a Russian prison. In February 2025, her body was repatriated; the body showed marks of torture and was returned without some organs.

 

Viktoriia wrote about the occupation regimes the Russians and their local collaborators were putting in place, about the occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and about the terror: how Russia was snuffing out resistance by detaining, threatening, beating and killing thousands of local civilians.

 

“Viktoriia was the only reporter who covered the occupied territories. For her, it was a mission,” Sevgil Musaieva, her editor at online news outlet Ukrainska Pravda said. “She was the bridge between Ukraine and those territories who provided this critical information about life [there]. After she disappeared, there is no coverage of what is happening.”

 

Roshchyna, 27, disappeared in August 2023 while reporting from Ukraine's Russian-occupied territories, with Moscow admitting her detention only the following year.

 

For more about Vika's story: 

https://forbiddenstories.org/russia-detainees-investigation-viktoriia-roshchyna/

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250429-forbidden-stories-viktoriia-project-ukraine-war-russia-occupied-territories-viktoriia-roshchyna

 

A bit like Ukraine killed a Russian reporter earlier.

 

Darya Dugina.

 

May she rest in peace.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62634359

Not a bit like it as all. Her father was the one targeted, Aleksandr Dugin. His daughter was not an in the field reporter.

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Dugin felt further vindicated when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched a bloody war in the Donbas following the pro-western revolution in Kyiv.

“I think we should kill, kill, kill [Ukrainians], there can’t be any other talk,” Dugin said in one video address to his followers at the time, making him one of the most hated Russian public figures in Kyiv.

 

On 4/30/2025 at 9:14 AM, Cameroni said:

A bit like Ukraine killed a Russian reporter earlier.

 

Darya Dugina.

 

May she rest in peace.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62634359

No, not at all the same. Despicable.

 

Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned by Moscow with signs of torture and with missing organs

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/europe/ukrainian-journalist-russia-torture-intl/index.html

 

Death to Putin, death to the orcs!

53 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

No, not at all the same. Despicable.

 

Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned by Moscow with signs of torture and with missing organs

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/europe/ukrainian-journalist-russia-torture-intl/index.html

 

Death to Putin, death to the orcs!

 

I'd say have a Mixue Melon ice crean and chill, but sadly they've just pulled it.