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Prosecutors: 63 journalists from 14 countries killed by Russia's war since Feb. 24, 2022

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The Prosecutor General's Office reported on June 6 that 63 journalists from 14 countries, including Ukraine, have been killed by Russia's war since the start of the full-scale invasion.

Ukraine celebrated Journalist's Day on June 6.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, only three people have been indicted following investigations into war crimes committed against journalists in Ukraine.

One person has already been sentenced to nine years in prison.

On May 9, Bosnian-French journalist Arman Soldin, a video journalist working for Agence France-Presse, was killed by Russian Grad rockets in the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian fixer Bohdan Bitik was killed in Kherson on April 26 and La Repubblica correspondent Corrado Zunino was injured when they were most likely ambushed by Russian snipers, according to the publication.

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Kate Tsurkan

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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent and is partially supported by a generous grant from the Nadia Sophie Seiler Fund. Kate co-translated Oleh Sentsov’s “Diary of a Hunger Striker,” Myroslav Laiuk’s “Bakhmut,” Andriy Lyubka’s “War from the Rear,” and Khrystia Vengryniuk’s “Long Eyes,” among other books. Some of her previous writing and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine and, in addition to Ukrainian and Russian, also knows French.

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