The well-known Italian journalist Stefania Battistini has started receiving death threats after her report from Sudzha (the aggressor country of the russian federation), and moscow is threatening her with criminal cases.
The head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) Serhii Tomilenko announced this on his Facebook page.
"The European Federation of Journalists strongly condemns Russia's threats against Italian journalists who covered the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk Oblast in Sudzha. These intimidations by Moscow are a form of censorship aimed at preventing the public from being informed about events at the front," said the operative statement of the EFJ, which the head of NUJU leads.
At the same time, Anna Del Freo, a member of the executive committee of the EFJ, emphasized: "Stefania Battistini is known in Italy as a serious and competent war correspondent. She and her colleague Simone Traini carry out their work independently. The fact that Moscow wants to open a criminal case against them is unacceptable, as well as death threats that appeared on Italian social networks".
In turn, Serhii Tomilenko expressed solidarity with Stefania Battistini, Simone Traini and all media workers who risk their lives to cover events in war zones.
"Their courage is extremely important for a free and informed society. Such intimidation by Moscow is unacceptable and violates international legal norms protecting journalists," the head of the NUJU emphasized.
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As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in June, military correspondent Anna Kaliuzhna accused the commander of one of the battalions of the Third Separate Assault Brigade, Dmytro Kukharchuk, and his subordinates of threats both to herself and to her parents.
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