- A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Russians has been released, the
news outlet she works for reported. - Viktoriia Roshchyna recorded a video saying the Russians "saved her life" after she was released.
A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Russians was released from captivity Monday after she recorded a video saying the Russians had "saved her life."
Local Ukrainian publication Hromadske said on Tuesday that Viktoriia Roshchyna — a journalist for the media outlet who had been taken into Russian custody on March 15 — had been freed and was now on her way to Zaporizhzhia to meet her family.
Hromadske reported that several hours prior to her release, pro-Russian outlets and Telegram channels began to show a video of Roshchyna saying that Russians were never holding her captive, but instead, they had saved her life.
Hromadske reported that said video was a condition of Roshchyna's release from detainment.
The outlet said she plans to tell the truth about captivity in the "near future."
Hromadske said last week that it learned on on March 16 that Roshchyna was taken into Russian custody. Witnesses told the outlet on that Roshchyna was "probably" detained by Russia's Federal Security Service.
Roshchyna was reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war at the time of her capture. She wrote about issues in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, Hromadske reported.
—Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) March 22, 2022
Translations by Oleksandr Vynogradov.