Oksana Baulina, Russian Journalist, Killed in Attack on Kyiv

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina.

A reporter for the independent Latvia-based investigative news website The Insider was killed Wednesday, March 23, while reporting in Kyiv's Podilskyi district, according to a statement from her outlet, media reports, and an interview with The Insider's deputy editor, Timur Olevskiy.
According to those sources, Oksana Baulina was covering Russian troops' shelling of the city at the time she was killed. Media reports indicate that the Russian military began shelling residential areas near the center of Kyiv early Wednesday morning.

As reported by The Insider, another civilian died in the attack that killed Baulina, and two people accompanying her were injured and hospitalized.

Baulina had written on a variety of topics, including Russian politics and corruption. According to The Insider, she previously worked for the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, until the organization was placed on a list of extremist organizations in June 2021, after which she was forced to leave Russia

Sergiy Tomalenko, the head of the Ukrainian journalist's union, wrote on Facebook that Baulina was not the only journalist killed by Russian forces.

According to Facebook's translation of the post, Viktor Dêdov was killed on March 11 in the besieged city of Mariupol in the southeastern Ukraine.

In the past month, several other journalists have been killed while covering the conflict in Ukraine.Among them are U.S. video journalist Brent Renaud, Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, and Ukrainian freelancer Oleksandra Kuvshynova. BBC reports that Ukrainian journalist Shakirov Dilerbek Shukurovych was killed in late February, camera operator Yevhenii Sakun died when Russian troops shelled Kyiv's television tower in March, and investigative journalist Viktor Dudar was killed in an encounter with Russian troops near the southern city of Mykolaiv.