The US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty revealed on Friday the murder of journalist and news program producer Vera Girish. In a Russian air raid on Kyiv.
Radio Liberty journalist and producer Vera Girish died as a result of a Russian missile hitting her home in Kyiv. The bombing came on April 28,” read a statement from the organization, a private, non-profit alternative news source funded by the US Agency for International Information.
“The body of the deceased was found under the rubble on the morning of April 29,” she added.
simultaneous Russian missile attack The visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Kyiv Thursday. The official met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – describing the war in Ukraine as “evil” and “absurd” – The attacks on Kyiv fell near it.
during Guterres On a visit to the nearby town of Bucha, where hundreds of civilians were discovered dead after Russian forces withdrew, Guterres called on Russia to cooperate with the International Criminal Court on investigations into possible war crimes committed during its invasion.
Echoes of Girish’s death reverberated on social media.
The eighth journalist in Ukraine since February 24, Vera Girish, a journalist for Radio Liberty, was killed yesterday in a missile attack in Kyiv. It is a necessity to support the safety of journalists. But when it’s your home.. stop this war!!! Support Ukraine! pic.twitter.com/4e757KVwHV
– Natalie Gryvnyak (nataliegryvnyak) April 29, 2022
Moscow confirmed that it hit Ukrainian targets during an air raid with “high-precision” weapons, but… He did not comment on the strike on the building where Girish lives.
The journalist began working in the Kyiv office of Radio Free Europe in February 2018. Prior to that, she worked for major Ukrainian TV channels.
Radio Free Europe’s editorial board offered its condolences to her family and said she would be “remembered as an intelligent and kind person, and a true professional”.
