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Media community, activists call on Russia to release missing Ukrainian journalist.

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Oleg Baturin, a journalist from the Kherson newspaper Novyi Den and an investigative author of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, was last seen in Kherson Oblast's Kakhovka on March 12. According to his wife, Russian forces were spotted close to the place where he was supposed to have a meeting on that day.

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Toma Istomina

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Toma Istomina is the deputy chief editor of the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked for the Kyiv Post from 2017-2021, first as a staff writer, later taking editor roles. For co-founding the Kyiv Independent, Toma was selected as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in 2022. She holds a master’s in international broadcasting from Taras Shevchenko University.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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