Global journalists watch-dog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) express severe concern that Local and international journalists in Ukraine are risking their lives to report the news as Russia’s invasion continues.
It recalled that Russian forces have shelled a T V broadcast tower in Kyiv, in an attack that killed five people including journalist Yevhenii Sakun. CPJ asserted that Journalists are considered civilians, and the bombing may constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
Moreover, it said that separately, two journalists with the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet were shot while reporting in eastern Ukraine, and one Spanish journalist covering Ukrainian refugee movements was detained in Poland.
In Russia, CPJ pointed out that authorities have threatened and covering the invasion and anti-war protests; at least five journalists are facing charges over their coverage of those protests.
Russia’s state media regulator, Roskomnadzor, also took independent broadcasters Echo of Moscow and Dozhd TV off the air and blocked access to their websites over their reporting on the conflict, it added.
