Bad news!
"As of today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has identified at least 27 Ukrainian media professionals imprisoned by Russia.
Among them are six media professionals from Melitopol, a city occupied by Russia in southeastern Ukraine, who have been languishing in Russian prisons for three years under arbitrary detention, unjust convictions and ill-treatment, often thousands of miles away from their families.
Their situations are different, but each case is a stark illustration of Russia’s brutal repression of Ukrainian journalists and media workers.
Some have been sentenced to decades behind bars. Oleksandr Malyshev was sentenced to 26 years in prison, the longest sentence ever handed down to a media professional since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Yana Suvorova, just 21 years old, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. She is being held in a prison known for its mistreatment of Ukrainian detainees.
For others, their fate remains uncertain. Heorhiy Levtchenko is serving a 16-year sentence, upheld in June 2026, but his current place of detention remains unknown. Anastasia Hlukhovska, meanwhile, has been held incommunicado for three years without ever being prosecuted or sentenced.
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