Russian law, which requires journalists to gag the invasion of Ukraine and the conflict, continues to unnerve reporters. The Russian investigative authorities have opened criminal proceedings against the wellknown journalist and former deputy Alexander Nevzorov on the basis of the recently passed law that punishes the dissemination of socalled “false news” about the activities of the armed forces with imprisonment of up to 15 years. Before Nevzorov, the relevant investigative committee ahe had initiated similar criminal proceedings against at least six other people. According to the committee quoted by Interfax, Nevzorov “knowingly published false information about a deliberate attack by Russian forces on a maternity hospital in Mariupol on his Instagram page and on a Youtube channel. The releases adds the investigating body were accompanied by inauthentic photos of civilians injured in the attack, taken by Ukrainian media.
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In the photos published by the international newspapers that sent them to the scene of the crime, they showed a crater several meters deep, which testifies to the impact site of the bomb dropped on the hospital by the jets. The injured women on stretchers, the reduced hospital wards and the bloodied beds, documented by photographer Evgeniy Maloletka’s footage for the Associated Press. Innocent victims, women and children who were hit by a “terrible attack by Russian troops” denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who in the evening published a video in Russian by “war crimes“. A raid that had provoked the outrage and condemnation of the world, from the Vatican to the USA, while the attack was planned for Moscow because there were Ukrainian “combat posts” in the structure.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian reporter Victoria RoshchynaReleased today after 10 days of kidnapping, Ukrainian channel 24 TV reportedly recorded a video under pressure from the Russian soldiers who were holding her. in exchange for his release. In the video, the journalist is said to have thanked the Russian special forces for saving her life. Roshchyna went missing on March 12. It was last seen in Berdyansk on the Black Sea, which was occupied by the Russians. From there she would have to move to Mariupol.
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