European Commission on the murder of Roshchina: Russia does not miss an opportunity to demonstrate its cruelty
Russia is not missing any opportunity to demonstrate its unspeakable cruelty to Ukrainians. The statement was made at a briefing by European Commission spokesperson Anita Hipper, commenting on the investigation into the death of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity, reports Ukrinform .
"Russia misses no opportunity to demonstrate its unspeakable cruelty to Ukrainians by killing and torturing them, as it did with Roshchyna, a brave Ukrainian journalist who was not only brutally murdered but tortured beforehand," said Gipper .
She added that this clearly demonstrates that life under Russian occupation is dangerous for Ukrainians.
Gipper emphasized that the Ukrainian journalist and her courage will always be remembered.
"We will do everything in our power to ensure that Russia is held accountable for all these war crimes and atrocities committed," the spokesperson summarized .
The day before, Forbidden Stories and 45 journalists from 13 Ukrainian and foreign media outlets published an investigation that said the Russians returned Roshchina's body without some internal organs. In particular, the brain, eyeballs, and part of the trachea were missing.
An international expert pathologist contacted by the authors of the project believes that the absence of these organs could hide the fact that the death was caused by strangulation.
- Roshchyna stopped contacting on August 3, 2023. As told her father, on July 27, Victoria left Ukraine for Poland, from where she was supposed to get to the occupied Ukrainian territories via Russia.
- The SBU and then the Russian side confirmed that the journalist was taken prisoner by the Russians.
- On October 10, 2024, the Coordination Center confirmed the death of the 27-year-old journalist in Russia. on October 11, an investigation was launched into the death of Roshchyna in Russian captivity.
- On April 24, 2025, it became known that the body of the journalist was returned to Ukraine. This happened at the end of February.
- The OGP reported that the body of journalist Roshchyna showed numerous signs of torture.