Ukraine / Europe & Central Asia

  
French photojournalist Antoni Lallican had covered the war in Ukraine since March 2022.

Russian drone kills French journalist Antoni Lallican in Ukraine

New York, October 3, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican in a Russian drone attack on Friday.  “CPJ is deeply alarmed by the Russian drone strike that killed French journalist Antoni Lallican and injured Ukrainian photojournalist Heorhii Ivanchenko, and calls on Russian and Ukrainian authorities to immediately investigate…

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Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Levchenko is seen behind bars after his arrest in August 2023.

Russian court jails Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Levchenko for 16 years

New York, September 4, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Russian authorities to free Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Levchenko, who has been sentenced to 16 years in a high security penal colony for treason and extremism. “After capturing Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Levchenko two years ago in retaliation for his brave reporting on the war from the occupied…

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The offices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty were damaged in an August 28, 2025, drone and missile attack.

Russian strikes on Ukraine damage 3 media outlets 

New York, August 28, 2025—A massive, early morning Russian attack on Ukraine damaged the offices of at least three news outlets on August 28, 2025. In Kyiv, the offices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and independent news outlet Ukrainska Pravda were damaged in a drone and missile attack. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, in eastern Ukraine, a drone strike damaged the office of local newspaper Mezhivsky Merydian. No media…

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Ukrainian journalist assaulted after report on mishandled corpses

New York, March 28, 2025—Ukrainian authorities should swiftly investigate a recent attack in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on a journalist apparently targeted because of his outlet’s online investigation that found a funeral company mishandled corpses, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “CPJ condemns the assault on a journalist in Kryvyi Rih,…

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Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Kulyk killed by Russian drone in Kyiv region

New York, February 26, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Kulyk, editor-in-chief of the multimedia editorial department of state news agency Ukrinform, in a Russian drone attack on February 26. “The Russian drone strike that killed Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Kulyk just days after the grim three-year milestone of Russia’s…

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Ukrainian journalist Pavlo Borysko injured while reporting on war 

New York, February 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, which injured camera operator Pavlo Borysko, with TSN, a daily news program with the Ukrainian privately owned broadcaster 1+1, and calls on Russian and Ukrainian authorities to ensure the safety of journalists covering the war. “Three years since the beginning of Russia’s…

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Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's military intelligence, attends the forum Ukraine 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 25, 2024. (Photo: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s security service opens criminal case after Ukrainska Pravda report

New York, February 3, 2025—Ukraine’s domestic security service (SBU) opened a criminal case on January 28 for “disclosure of state secrets” after independent news outlet Ukrainska Pravda published statements by Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, at a closed-door parliamentary meeting. According to an unnamed source cited in the report, Budanov said that…

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Journalists (from left) Kurt Pelda, Josef Zehnder, and Petro Chumakov were detained by Ukrainian military officers for eight hours on accusations of ‘illegal border crossing’ on January 6 in Sudzha, a town in Russia’s Kursk region. (Photo: Courtesy of Kurt Pelda)

3 journalists fear accreditation limbo after detention by Ukrainian military

New York, January 30, 2025—Ukrainian military officers detained three journalists for eight hours on accusations of “illegal border crossing” on January 6 in Sudzha, a Ukrainian-controlled town in Russia’s Kursk region. The journalists — Ukrainian freelance reporter Petro Chumakov, Kurt Pelda, correspondent with Swiss media group CH Media, and freelance camera operator Josef Zehnder — had army…

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VPNs, training, and mental health workshops: How CPJ helped journalist safety in 2024

Haitian journalist Jean Marc Jean was covering an anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince in February 2024 when he was struck in the face by a gas canister fired by police into the crowd. One of at least five journalists injured while covering civil unrest in the country that month, Jean arrived at the hospital with a…

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CPJ urges Ukraine president to halt media intimidation, allow journalists to work freely

The Committee to Protect Journalists, in a letter to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on December 19, 2024, asked him to ensure that journalists and media outlets can work freely in Ukraine and that no one responsible for intimidating journalists goes unpunished, following a year marked by several incidents of pressure, intimidation, and surveillance, as well…

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