One Ukraine journalist tells why she and her colleagues across the country are determined to bear witness to unfolding horrors
On 23 March, at 7am, Svetlana Zalizetskaya, editor-in-chief of the RIA-Melitopol news outlet, learned that armed men in a white jeep had arrived at her house. She wasn’t in the city but neighbours told her they saw men with machine guns taking her parents out.
Russian soldiers had occupied Melitopol since early March, kidnapped the city’s mayor Ivan Fedorov and tried to force him to work on the Russian side. He refused.
